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es The great Epistolic Art.-This art, according
to his own view of it, and which is SO well ex-
pressed in letter to Mrs. Thrale, October 81,
TIT, DR.. Johnson possessed in an eminent de-
gree. TO sit down, " writes he, " so often with
nothing TO- say; to say something SO often, al
most without consciousness Of saying, and with
out any remembrance of having said, is a pow
er of which will not violate my modesty BY
boasting but do not believe that everybody
has it. Some, when they write to their friends,
are all affection some are wise and sententious
some strain their powers for efforts of gaiety,
some write news, and some write secrets but
to make letter without affection, without wis
dom, without gaiety, without news, and without
a secret, is doubtless the great epistolic art"