text:  And really when we reflect that many of the most threadbare jests which figure in the recondite tomes of Mr Joseph Miller are to be found crystallized in attic salt in the pages of Hierocles and represented as forming part of the "Hundred merye Talis and Jeastis" which delectated the citizens of ancient Greece; when we reflect we repeat that the same buffooneries still retailed by after-dinner cits in the Sunday shades of Clapham or Camden-Town may have raised the easy laugh of the merry Greek beneath the portico and in the Agora; it makes us entertain a very humble idea respecting the amount of creative power given to man even for the production of so small a matter as a pleasantry not to speak of pleasantries so very small as some of these mysterious and time-honoured jokes