and is the best of
his narrative pieces. "The New Adam and Eve," and several others,
might be mentioned for an agreeable vein of thought and play of fancy.
In one of his papers the author has attempted a more common species of
humour, and with some success. For variety's sake, we shall close our
notice of him, and for the present, of "The American Library," with an
extract from "Mrs Bullfrog."

Mr Bullfrog is an elegant and fastidious linen-draper, of feminine
sensibility, and only too exquisite refinement. Such perfection of
beauty and of delicacy did he require in the woman he should honour
with the name of wife, that there was an awful chance of his obtaining
no wife at all; when he happily fell in with the amiable and refined
person, who in a very short time became Mrs Bullfrog.

An unlucky accident, an upset of the carriage on their wedding trip,
giving rise to a strange display of masculine energy on the part of
Mrs B. and disarranging her glossy black ringlets and pearly teeth, so
as to occasion their disappearance and reappearance in a most
miraculous manner, has excited a strange disquietude in the else happy
bridegroom.

"'To divert my mind,' says Mr Bullfrog, who tells his own story,
'I took up the newspaper which had covered the little basket of
refreshments, and which now lay at the bottom of the coach,
blushing with a deep red stain, and emitting a potent spirituous
fume, from the contents of the broken bottle of _kalydor_. The
paper was two or three years old, but contained an article of
several columns, in which I soon grew wonderfully interested. It
was the report of a trial for breach of promise of marriage,
giving the testimony in full, with fervid extracts from both the
gentleman's and lady's amatory correspondence. The deserted damsel
had personally appeared in court, and had borne energetic evidence
to her lover's perfidy, and the strength of her blighted
affections. On the defendant's part, there had been an attempt,
though insufficiently sustained, to blast the plaintiff's
character, and a plea, in mitigation of damages, on account of her
unamiable temper. A horrible idea was suggested by the lady's
name.

"'Madam,' said I, holding the newspaper before Mrs Bullfrog's
eyes--and though a small, delicate, and thin visaged man, I feel
assured that I looked very terrific--'Madam,' repeated I, through
my shut teet