text:  What names are those of La Calprenede and D'Urfe and De Scuderi to be the idols and tutelary deities of a circulating library!--and Sevigne to conduct the fashionable correspondence of the _Morning Post_!--and Racine to contribute to the unacted drama!--and ladies skipping up the steepest parts of Parnassus with petticoats well tucked up to show the beauty of their ankles and their hands filled with artificial flowers--almost as good as natural--to show the simplicity of their tastes! I wish I had lived in France in 1672; for in that year Madame Deshoulieres who had already been voted the tenth muse by all the freeholders of Pieria and whose pastorals were lisped by all the fashionable shepherdesses in Paris left the flowery banks of the Seine to rejoin her husband