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Brown's friendly rival, Hopkins, has selected Gil Blas for an illustration this year; and the 'Robber's Cavern' is one of the most masterly of Hopkins' productions. "'Great Rooms. 33.

We may consider it, as it was considered in its time, the typical novel of the Ancien Regime. A picture of Spanish society, written by a Frenchman, it was held to be and doubtless with reason a picture of the whole European world. I mean, of course, "Gil Blas." So picturesque is the book, that it has furnished inexhaustible motifs to the draughtsman.

Maltravers thought it a bad sign, but he recollected Gil Blas, and prudently refrained from bringing on himself the benevolent wish of "beaucoup de bonheur et un peu, plus de bon gout." When Cesarini had finished his MS., he was anxious to conclude the excursion he longed to be at home, and think over the admiration he had excited.

What the governor did with Blas Rodriguez on account of the quantity of gold taels which he gave him. Of the Dominican friar who went to look at the bulls of Don Fernando, that he might enter as a Franciscan. How not even this gentleman has escaped from the anger of the archbishop and Verart. Of the inundation in Cagayan; of the locusts, famine, earthquakes, and drouths; of disturbances, etc.

I don't know much better than they, but I think I remember that a certain Sieur d'Estavayer challenged some Flemish count I don't know who and that the combat took place in this square. Now, my dear fellow, here is the prison, which ought to give you some idea of human vicissitudes. Gil Blas didn't change his condition more often than this monument its purposes.

When Heceta and Bodega in 1775 were searching the coast for harbors, they anchored under the lee of the next northerly headland. After the pious manner of the time, having left San Blas on Trinity Sunday, they named their haven Trinidad. Their arrival was six days before the battle of Bunker Hill. It is about forty-five miles from Cape Mendocino to Trinidad.

They began to feel neither honoured nor overpowered by so much courtesy; his reasoning was always so coarse, although forcible and logical. “By my faith!” said Uncle Blas; “why does this ill-faced gentleman call me Mr. Blas, as if that would make me any better? What does it look like to you?”

We left the kind people of Apalachicola, and crossed the bay to St. George's Sound, with a cargo of delicacies, for Captain Fry had filled our lockers with various comforts for the inner man, while our friend, the cattle-owner, whom we had met at Cape San Blas, and who had now returned to his home, stocked us with delicious oranges from his grove on the outskirts of the city.

Gil Blas, in Le Sage's famous romance, finds it possible to become a skilled physician in the twinkling of an eye, when Dr. Sangrado has imparted to him the secret that the remedy for all diseases is to be found in bleeding the patient and in making him drink copiously of hot water. When little is known about things, it does not seem impossible for one man to learn that little.

Captain and Sargento-mayor Gallinato crossed from Cochinchina to Manila in the flagship of his fleet, and informed Don Francisco Tello whom he found governing, of the events of his expedition; and that Blas Ruyz and Diego Belloso had gone by land to Lao from Cochinchina in search of King Langara of Camboja.