STEALING.
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Don't be alarmed, gen,les, though there is nothing very fascinating in the title of these lucubrations, still we are determined with your permission, to discuss the theme, hoping thereby to give that word a more extensive definition than the fashionables may be disposed to allow it. For instance: a gentleman sees handsome pen knife on the desk of his friend he admires it! 'tis exactly the thing he wants: one blade is a keener for quill another an exquisite pairer of the nails; in short, he must have it; and why not :! "penknives are publck property" and so it glides into his vest pocket, and makes itself " at home." Now this is steaIing---downrght stealing yet, Brutus is an honorable man." Your lit- erary friend visits you in your library and

 uxuriates in the field of literature before him with keen relish of an epcure at a feast, knocks down Virgil in grasping at Byron, and pops Cervantes under the Wa verlies. After ageneral survey ofaIl your literary bill of fare, he for she honors you by borrowing the first volume of one set :; the second of another, and so on: now as it is 'an old fashioned whim' even to think of returning borrowed books, prepare to sigh your last farewell to these. And what is this but stealing? yea, most vexatious & abominable larceny! When wishing,per- haps on some important occasion to refer to particular book, you hasten to your Ii- brary and find that volume, the most valu- able of the sett, the. only one missing. If you are resolved to regain it, after dili- aLna :A be restored to you in the course ofthe year after having accomplished the tour of the city upon the lending principle, yet cover- less and soded as it probably will be, you are glad to receive it. A liberal feeling sometimes visits us on viewing the vacas- ces of our shelves, and could we but re- member the names of such borrowers, we should be happy to forward to them the re- maining volumes ofthe sett as being use less to us. We had rather be compelled to cut with halfa pair of scissors than lose one volume of an interesting work.