Between this and _The Lilliputian Magazine_ came an instructive “Snuff-box” series: The _Circle of the Sciences_,[43] described in the Advertisement as “a compendious library, whereby each Branch of Polite Learning is rendered extremely easy and instructive”. But the Newbery Pedant is never quite serious. When, later, he sets himself to adapt the Newtonian System “to the Capacities of young Gentlemen and Ladies”, he does it in a _Philosophy_ of _Tops and Balls_,[44] and seems immensely diverted by this notion of making the Giant Instruction stoop to play.