It is not every one who has a weak stomach, or time to attend to it if he have.
But who would not swallow a pill to live to a hundred and fifty-two ?" PISISTRATUS (stirring the fire in great excitement).--"My title! my title!--what shall be my title ?" MR.

CAXTON (thrusting his hand into his waistcoat, and in his most didactic of tones).--"From a remote period, the choice of a title has perplexed the scribbling portion of mankind.

We may guess how their invention has been racked by the strange contortions it has produced.
To begin with the Hebrews.

'The Lips of the Sleeping' (Labia Dormientium)--what book did you suppose that title to designate ?--A Catalogue of Rabbinical Writers! Again, imagine some young lady of old captivated by the sentimental title of 'The Pomegranate with its Flower,' and opening on a Treatise on the Jewish Ceremonials! Let us turn to the Romans.

Aulus Gellius commences his pleasant gossipping 'Noctes' with a list of the titles in fashion in his day.