Page images
PDF
EPUB
[graphic][merged small]

A BRONZE INKSTAND, PRESENTED FROM ROME WITH THE FOLLOWING LINES

To the Editor.

No more the praises of their Vesta's name
The tuneful voices of her maids inspire-
No more the white-robed virgins fan the flame,
And watch with picus zeal the deathless fire-
Of all the glories of that sainted fane,
Those antique columns now alone remain!
But recollections linger round their base,

Like flow'rs that grow on some forgotten grave;
Unmark'd, unknown, that lowly resting place,
But for the clue their summer fragrance gave!

C. J.

[blocks in formation]
[blocks in formation]

PREFACE.

THIS Second Volume of the TABLE Book concludes my endeavours of this nature. My engagement was to continue the work so long as the public continued to be pleased. I have gone a little further in justice to my readers, who might have felt disappointed had the volume not been concluded. cause to regret its commencement.

The TABLE BOOK, like the EVERY-DAY BOOK, is undeformed by blemishes that would render it unfit for the Family Table. This, its praise in particular, is, to the public in general, a defect, in a work of low price and humble pretension. It has likewise the disadvantage of containing some things of higher reach, and more literary merit than usually fall to such a publication: it "flies too much over men's heads"-is a little too much in advance of the "march of intellect." I supposed that a sheet so filled, "with engravings-every Saturday -price threepence," would sell to an extent that would leave something weekly to its conductor: I erred.

January, 1828.

W. HONE.

« PreviousContinue »