M.thought you grown less, did she?
I am not grown a bit, but as short and dumpy as ever.

You ask me to recommend you some books for your perusal.

I will do so in as few words as I can.

If you like poetry, let it be first-rate; Milton, Shakspeare, Thomson, Goldsmith, Pope (if you will, though I don't admire him), Scott, Byron, Campbell, Wordsworth, and Southey.

Now don't be startled at the names of Shakspeare and Byron.