turtle.
Down! down with it, VUL., that will best end the quarrel,
And I'll be content with my old bed of coral.'

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'MILK FOR BABES,' an elaborately-concocted satire upon a certain class of
'learned and pious hand-books for urchins of both sexes,' is not without
humor, and ridicules what indeed in some respects deserves animadversion.
We affect as little as our correspondent what has been rightly termed 'a
clumsy fumbling for the half-formed intellect, a merciless hunting down of
the tender and unfledged thought,' through the means of 'instructive'
little books, wherein an insipid tale goes feebly wriggling through an
unmerciful load of moral, religious and scientific preaching; or an
apparently simple dialogue involves subjects of the highest difficulty,
which are chattered over between two juvenile prodigies, or delivered to
them in mouthfuls, curiously adapted to their powers of swallowing. 'The
minor manners and duties,' says our correspondent, 'are quite overlooked
by misguided parents now-a-days;' and this he illustrates by an anecdote:
'THOMAS, my son,' said a father to a lad in my hearing, the other day,
'won't you show the gentleman your last composition?' 'I don't want to,'
said he. 'I _wish_ you would,' responded the father. 'I wont!' was the
reply; 'I'll be goy-blamed if I do!' A sickly, half-approving smile passed
over the face of the father, as he said, in extenuation of his son's
_brusquerie_: 'Tom don't lack manners generally; but the fact is, _he's
got such a cold, he is almost a fool_!' Kind parent! happy boy! . . . WE
would counsel such of our readers as can command it, to secure the perusal
of '_Hugh Adamson's Reply to John Campbell_,' in the matter of
international copy-right. Mr. CAMPBELL, being a paper dealer, and greatly
benefitted in his business by the increased sale of stock consequent upon
the influx of cheap republications, is naturally very anxious to prevent
the passage of an international copy-right law. As might be anticipated of
such an advocate, his real reasons are all based upon the _argumentum ad
crumenam,_ the argument to the _purse_. Mr. ADAMSON, in a few satirical,
well-reasoned, sententious paragraphs, has fairly demolished the
superstructure which Selfishness had reared, and exposed the
misrepresentations upon which alone the unsubstantial fabric could have
rested. It is quiet and good-natured, but _cutting_; and will act as an
anti