To explain, to those who may be ignorant of the practice. On Twelfth-night (Jan. 6th) boys assemble round the inviting shops of the pastrycooks, and dexterously nail the coat-tails of spectators, who venture near enough, to the bottoms of the window frames; or pin them together strongly by their clothes. Some times eight or ten persons find themselves thus connected. The dexterity and the force of the nail driving is so quick and sure, that a single blow seldom fails of doing the business effectually. Withdrawal of the nail without a proper instrument is out of the question; and consequently, the person nailed must either leave part of his coat, as a cognizance of his attachment, or quit the spot with a hole in it. At every nailing and pinning shouts of laughter arise from the and the spectators. perpetrators Yet it often happens to one who turns and smiles at the duress of another, that he also finds himself nailed. Efforts at extrication increase mirth, nor is the presence of a constable, who is usually employed to attend and preserve free 'ingress, egress, and regress,' sufficiently awful to deter the offenders. Scarcely a shop in London that offers a halfpenny plain bun to the purchase of a hungry boy, is without Twelfth-cakes and finery in the windows on Twelfth-day. The ginger-bread bakers-there are not many, compared with their number when the writer was a consumer of their manufactured goods,—even the reduced gingerbread-bakers periwig a few plum-buns sixes, bath-cakes, parliament, and ladies' fingers. Their staple-ware has leaves of untarnished dutch-gilt stuck on; their upright cylinder-shaped show-glasses, containing peppermint-drops, elecampane, sugar-sticks, hard-bake, brandy-balls, and bulls'-eyes, are carefully polished; their lolly-pops are fresh incased, and look as white as the stems of tobacco-pipes; and their candlesticks are ornamented with fillets and bosses, of writing paper; or, if the candles rise from the bottom of inverted glass cones, they shine more sparkling for the thorough cleaning of their receivers in the morning. with sugar-frost to-day, and coaxingly in- there are ladies present; next put the terpolate them among their new made gentlemen's characters in a hat. Then call on a gentleman to carry the reticule to the ladies as they sit, from which each lady is to draw one ticket, and to preserve it unopened. Select a lady to bear the hat to the gentlemen for the same purpose. There will be one ticket left in the reticule, and another in the hat, which the lady and gentleman who carried each is to interchange, as having fallen to each. Next, arrange your visiters according to their numbers; the king No. 1, the queen No. 2, and so on. The king is then to recite the verse on his ticket; then the queen the verse on hers; and so the characters are to proceed in numerical order. This done, let the cake and refreshments go round, and hey for merriment! How to eat Twelfth-cake requires no recipe; but how to provide it, and draw the characters, on the authority of Rachel Revel's Winter Evening Pastimes,' may be acceptable. First, buy your cake. Then, before your visiters arrive, buy your characters, each of which should have a pleasant verse beneath. Next look at your invitation list, and count the number of ladies you expect; and afterwards the number of gentlemen. Then, take as many female characters as you have invited ladies; fold them up, exactly of the same size, and number each on the back; taking care to make the king No. 1, and the queen No. 2. Then prepare and number the gentlemen's characCause tea and coffee to be handed ters. to your They come! they come! each blue-eyed sport, Joy on light fantastic toe,' Twelfth-day is now only commemorated by the custom of choosing king and queen. 'I went,' says a correspondent, 'to a friend's house in the country to partake of some of those innocent pleasures that constitute a merry Christmas. I did not return till I had been present at drawing king and queen, and eaten a slice of the Twelfth-cake, made by the fair hands of my friend's consort. After tea yesterday, a noble cake was produced, and two bowls, containing the fortunate chances for the different sexes. Our host filled up the tickets; the whole company, except the king and queen, were to be ministers of state, maids of honor, or ladies of the bed-chamber. Our kind host and hostess, whether by design or accident, became king and queen. According to Twelfth-day law, each party is to support their character till midnight.' The maintenance of character is essential to the drawing. Within the personal observation of the writer of this article, character has never been preserved. It must be admitted however that the Twelfth-night characters sold by the pastrycooks, are either commonplace or gross-when genteel they are inane; when humorous, they are vulgar. Young folks anticipate Twelfth-night as a full source of innocent glee to their light little hearts. Where, and what is he, who would negative hopes of happiness for a few short hours in the dayspring of life? A gentle spirit in the London Magazine beautifully sketches a scene of juvenile enjoyment this evening: 'I love to see an acre of cake spread out -the sweet frost covering the rich earth below-studded all over with glittering flowers, like ice-plants, and red and green knots of sweetmeat, and hollow yellow crusted crowns, and kings and queens, and their paraphernalia. I delight to see a score of happy children sitting hud dled all round the dainty fare, eyeing the cake and each other, with faces sunny enough to thaw the white snow. I like to see the gazing silence which is kept so religiously while the large knife goes its round, and the glistening eyes which feed beforehand on the huge slices, dark with citron and plums, and heavy as gold. And then, when the 'Characters' are drawn, is it nothing to watch the peeping delight which escapes from their little eyes? One is proud, as king; another stately, as queen; then there are two whispering grotesque secrets which they cannot contain (those are sir Gregory Goose and sir Tunbelly Clumsy.) The boys laugh out their own misfortunes; but the little girls (almost ashamed of their prizes) sit blushing and silent. It is not until the lady of the house goes round, that some of the more extravagant fictions are revealed. And then, what a roar of mirth! Ha, ha! The ceiling shakes, and the air is torn. from their seats like kids, and insist on seeing Miss Thompson's card. Ah! what merry spite is proclaimed-what ostentatious pity! The little girl is almost in tears; but the large lump of allotted cake is placed seasonably in her hands, and the glass of sweet wine 'all round,' drowns the shrill urchin laughter, and a gentler delight prevails.' Does not this make a charming picture. They bound CHEw a bit of anchovy, and it will instantly restore the tone of voice when lost by public speaking. *441 Sweet-William pink. *442 Rabbits. (Morland.) *443 A church. If too complicated the tower may be drawn at first separately. 444 Another side and full face, as in Nos. 419 and 420, may be attempted from nature. 445 A man digging with a pickaxe, to be invented and drawn by the pupil. 446 Nos. 294 and 295 may be drawn of the largest size the pupil's slate or black board will allow. 447 A child, to be drawn roughly from nature, in several attitudes. 448 Perspective. How must a face be placed so that you shall see all of it? Try if it can be placed in any other way. Can it be placed so that you shall see exactly half of it?—also so that you shall see one half and part of the other half? How must a face be placed so that you may see all the upper, but only a part of the lower tion?—to see the top of the head but none of the face ?-the face and none of the head? This exercise should be performed by the actual observation of a face; it may be also varied by using a bust. 449 por Exercises on a landscape, either painted, drawn or engraved. Which part of this picture is intended to represent the fore ground?—and which the distant ground?-and that which is neither the fore ground nor the distant ground? How do you know that this is the most distant ground?—that this is the nearest ground?—and that this is the middle ground?—that this tree is in the distant ground ?—that this house is in the middle ground?— that this man is in the fore ground? &c. Another picture may now be taken, and the exercise usefully varied if the teacher points to each part or object, and inquires what it is meant to represent. If that near tree had been in the distant ground how would it have appeared?—and how if in the middle ground? And the exercise may be continued with other objects in the picture. 450 A monument should be invented, formed of a pedestal and long pyramid; also one formed of a cubic pedestal and pillar, ornamented at top. *451 A tree. 452 A cat, dog, fowl, or some other do mestic animal, to be drawn from nature. 453 Nos. 178, 196 and 207 to be drawn from memory but much larger. 454 The pupil may try to make a ground plan of a floor, consisting of one or more rooms, and a passage, &c. 455 Nos. 417 and 451 to be drawn again. 456 Perspective, &c. Take a hollow cylinder, as a large roll of paper. Can you place this cylinder so as to see all the outside at once?—all the inside at once?-all the inside and some of the outside at once? In what position does it appear longest?-in what position shortest ?— in what, between the two? When you look through it do you notice any difference in the rims or circles at the |