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ike apples of gold to frolicsome schoolboys, so beautiful Maga, to covetous Yankees, is a thing too full of relish and of beauty to be other than pardonable plunder! Maga, like Italy, ought to be less bewitching, or better defended. What would not some of Maga's cotemporaries give, nevertheless, for the compliment of being perpetually ravished by the Goths and Vandals of Letters--the merciless anti-copyright booksellers of America? Nay--they will pout at the insinuation, and stand upon the virtue which no one believes they possess. But assure them, dear Godfrey, that they are in no conceivable danger. Maga shall growl, and they shall fawn; but the republicans will not be repulsed by the honest frankness of the one nor propitiated by the hypocritical blandishments of the others. If they doubt it, just tell them what happened with me the other day, and what I vouch for as fairly exhibiting the feeling of the most intelligent Americans. I could add many other anecdotes of the same colour and character; but I tell this as creditable to them, and illustrative of Maga's footing among them:-- I was at the reading-rooms of "The Athenaeum"--a literary club-house in this city, which has grown out of a small society of scholars that existed here before the Revolution--and which, I am happy to say, is always supplied with the genuine imported Magazine. A young man, whom I had often met at the rooms, and who had the Magazine in his hand, called my attention to a palpable error in an article, that reflected pretty merrily on his countrymen. "Ha!" said I, "just like old Ebony! Why don't you banish the rabid old Tory from these most democratic tables?" "Banish Maga!" was the reply--"what would be left fit to read?" "You surprise me! Edinburgh, Westminster--any thing that thinks better of Congress, and legislative eloquence--as you do, of course!" "Why so? Mayn't a man be a republican, without recognising a _jure divino_ majesty in a Congressman?" "But Maga would make out some of your Solons prodigiously long in the ears." "Nay--rather intolerably long in the wind, which is just the intolerable truth. Thanks to Maga for giving them the echo of their palaver! and may the first reformed Congress vote her a gold medal for the good she has done to the country!" "She sometimes makes free with the nation itself, and some of the little peculiarities of your countrymen." "Well, well--we are not drawn more out of proportion than
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