text:  Essays she abominates; nor can she exactly understand the use of quartoes unless as Swift describes the merit of "A Chrysostom to smooth his band in"-- to serve for flattening between the leaves her rumpled embroidery or netting! Now you are simply and respectfully asked beloved public what must be the feelings of a man of genius or of any sensible scholarly individual when after devoting years of his life to a work of standard excellence--a work such as in France would obtain him access to the Academy or in Russia or Prussia a pension and an order of merit--he is told by the publisher who in Great Britain supplies the place of these fountains of honour and reward that "the public of the present day has no taste for serious reading;" for Messrs Folio and Duodecimo cannot of course afford to regard a few dons of the universities or a few county bookclubs parsonically presided as representatives of the public! What the disappointed man thus enlightened must think of "glorious Apollo" when he goes to bed that night we should be sorry to conjecture! "The public of the present day"--_Ang