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23, Rutland Street,

15th Feb. 1862.

Human wisdom has reached its furthest point when it gets to say—I do not know—God knows. In the child's story of "Beauty and the Beast" the Beast says to Beauty, "'Doyou not think me very ugly?'"

"Why, yes," said she, "for I cannot tell a story." You are right," replied the 'Beast; "and besides being ugly I am very stupid."

"I think you cannot be very stupid," said Beauty, "if you yourself know this."—From a thoughtful Discourse on Plato, by, I believe, a Liverpool Merchant.