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The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice topart of the sex, ireat enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well infornorance But Catherine did not know her own advantages--did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorantman, unless circumstances are particularly untoward In the present instance, she confessed and laive anything in the world to be able to draw; and a lecture on the picturesque immediately followed, in which his instructions were so clear that she soon began to see beauty in everything admired by him, and her attention was so earnest that he becareat deal of natural taste He talked of foregrounds, distances, and second distances--side-screens and perspectives--lights and shades; and Catherine was so hopeful a scholar that when they gained the top of Beechen Cliff, she voluntarily rejected the whole city of Bath as unworthy to ress, and fearful of wearying her with too much wisdom at once, Henry suffered the subject to decline, and by an easy transition froment and the withered oak which he had placed near its sueneral, to forests, the enclosure of theovernment, he shortly found himself arrived at politics; and froeneral pause which succeeded his short disquisition on the state of the nation was put an end to by Catherine, who, in rather a solemn tone of voice, uttered these words, "I have heard that so indeed will soon come out in London"

Miss Tilney, to whom this was chiefly addressed, was startled, and hastily replied, "Indeed! And of what nature?"

"That I do not know, nor who is the author I have only heard that it is to bewe have met with yet"

"Good heaven! Where could you hear of such a thing?"

"A particular friend of mine had an account of it in a letter from London yesterday It is to be unco of the kind"