The Waverley Novels

Comparatively few persons now living can remeniber the exoitement causea by the nppearar.cü of p. now fiction by the a-.ithor of Waverley. Cireulating librariea were beseiged by their customers, enger to ba favored with an early perusal of the new book. Iü sorne librarles each volume waïdivided, and bound in two portions ; aud at Bath, and other fashionable places of the period, they were gonictinies split into threo parts to facilitato reading. The writer remembras seeing, in a Scottish provincial tuwn, the novel of " Guy Mannering" boucd in portions of a hnndred píiges, each of wMch, at that time (1832), was lent to readat the rate of twopenca par night. It consisted in all of ten parts, the reading of whioh, at the pvico named, CMt one shilling and eightponci-; and the feat of perusal, in a caee wo perfonally kuow of, was achicved, nofc in ten nights, bat in a gallop of eight hours ! Whc-n the Leitli emack whioh carried thnse literary treasures to London arrived in the Thames, no matter that it might bo midüight, or that it might be Sunday eveaing, tlie London agents of the Edinburgh publishers were on the alert, and had portera and vehicles in readiness to oarry off the treasures to the "Bow,"or to "No. 90 Oheapside," wbere - the books being, as it is tf;chnica!ly ealled, ín " quires" - the bi)okbiuders were in readiness to perform their worli, bo that in a few hours copies wero on the way by coach and wagon to all parts of the country. - Ohambers' Journal. The clerk of a cockney church recently made the following announoement to the congregatiou : "Youare psired to attend i meeting in the vcsiyat,4 o'elook, tt consider on the bift ineansof 'ealiiig tLe church and to digest other matters."