some
inscriptions for the unreal folios, quartos, and duodecimos, to be thus
simulated. Accordingly a series of some eighty facetious, and punning
names was furnished with admirable readiness, and skill. The following
are some of the best: Percy Fere, in forty volumes. Lamb's Recollections of Suett. Tadpoles ; or
Tales out of my own Head. Autographia ; or Man's Nature known by Ms
Signature. Pygmalion, by Lord Bacon. John Knox, on Death's Door.
Haughty-cultural remarks on London Pride. Voltaire ; Volney ; Volta;
three Vols. Johnson's Contradictionary. Cursory Remarks on Swearing.
Cook's Specimens of the Sandwich Tongue. Boyle on Steam. Life of Jack
Ketch ; with cuts of his own Execution.
Nero
fantastically called his Pompeia " Amber," she being a blonde, with
auburn hair. On which account hair of such sort then became the fashion
in Rome, some of it being ruthlessly taken from the heads of the German
" female savages " ; also the Roman ladies converted their black locks
into red by steeping them in a strong alkali.
" Caustica Teutonioos acoendit spuma eapillos ;
Captiva poteris cultior ease coma."
From
the second Imperial epoch, down to the middle of the fourteenth
century, Amber was carved into knives, and one-pronged forks, which the
Princes, and great Church dignitaries used for cutting-up various kinds
of fruits, and vegetables, especially the esculent fungi (mushrooms),
and the like. There is an archaic Amber cup now in the museum at
Brighton; this having been found originally in a barrow at Hove.
Amber, as already stated, is a fossil resin of vegetable
