Macedon, requires a cranium which can find comfortable room for all the notions which cram, individually, the brains of a great many philosophers, linguists, generals, and politicians; not omitting, at the same time, to become familiarly acquainted with the tricks and artifices of a multitude of quacks, thieves, spies, masters, slaves, lovers, swindlers, &c.. Nor is it allowed to him to despise the humbler knowledge of the cobbler, the above fisherwoman, and another long series of specialities and individualities, old and young, male and female. It requires a great many years to digest all these heterogeneous materials, even at a time when we have such admirable machineries as encyclopædias, magazines, and newspap newspapers, to bring them ready baked and cooked, pieced and 1, pieced and peppered, straight into the interior of our cerebral ventricles. But Demosthenes must have expended a great many years in gathering such heaps of knowledge to-gether; to which, if we add the time he lost in overcoming the natural defects of his organs of speech, we will be puzzled to conceive where he got the time to commit to his memory these myriads of notions, which, however, is a condition, sine qua non, for the success of any candidate to a Demosthenes-ship. Besides, there is another ingredient entering the composition of a Demosthenes; viz., the capacity of launching forth a whole arsenal of defensive and offensive weapons upon friends and foes, in every direction; weapons of every description, sharp and round, light and ponderous, all well aimed and in a well-timed series, copiously, but not slippingly; to forget nothing, neither what is to be said nor what is to be kept silent. How often do we pity the lecturer or the orator, who is deficient in this last capacity of delivering a long number of notions
