CHAPTER XXXV. Turpissimum est nobis LATRONES e! LENONES majore inter se consensione vivere, quam eruditos. LUDOVICUS VIVES. It is most shameful that THIEVES and PANDERS should live more friendly together than the LEARNED! LITERARY QUARRELS! WHEN the REVIEW arrived, it was my fate to open that awful dispatch. I soon perceived they denounced an exterminating war to our small phalanx! At the preluding flourish I was in a stupor! Awakened by a small, low, sibillant noise, I beheld the mem CHAPTER XXXV. Turpissimum est nobis LATRONES e! LENONES majore inter se consensione vivere, quam eruditos. LUDOVICUS VIVES. It is most shameful that THIEVES and PANDERS should live more friendly together than the LEARNED! LITERARY QUARRELS! WHEN the REVIEW arrived, it was my fate to open that awful dispatch. I soon perceived they denounced an exterminating war to our small phalanx! At the preluding flourish I was in a stupor! Awakened by a small, low, sibillant noise, I beheld the mem bers hissing at one another! Red eyes, sneer ing noses, and acid tongues! Who could have imagined this? Every soul was burst ing with a secret that not one hitherto but had masked his real sentiments; they had stifled themselves with roses, which had been thrown away with mutual prodigality; each, merely to insure his own papers being inserted in the "Memoirs of the Constellation," had humoured and applauded the whiffle-scribble of his brother! But against my Uncle, as President of the Cat and Fiddle, the members seemed more bitterly enraged-they petrified his genius, they iced his tongue! they all swore that his Essays were the maggots that had flyblown their literary venison ! Then the no-sale of our book, and the in |