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Some persons are fond of asking others this imbecile question, "If you were wrecked on island, and were restricted to a very rary, what would you choose?" A ty of auawers may be, and ha 00, gi en to thi 4 conundrum, One man would take the "Shakespeare." pectable mau, and quite in-of understanding either of these collec-Another would prefer Gaspard de la Nuit, and Ouida. He, too, is respectable, but a hile affected, and, to put it mildly, rather fool, A third would select the Lucyelopadi Britannica, but dat can hardly be called a Yimited library. Homer and Pascal will suffice a fourth, For one's own part, if one could have the poetry of the Spectator (in a neat tories of duodecimos; Lemerro should print them) and the literary advertisements of the Athenaeum, these things, with bread-fruit wrecks, and the usual diversions of a dose island would keep life from losing its As to the poetry of the Spectator, there plenty to be said on some other occasion, nai on many other occasions Phe topic is inexhaustible, like the eopoctability of the itself; like human tio. But the are a well in the wilderness, o far day after tempt, banquet of amusing absurdity always, There, a now one learns that the Con:
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