LITERARY NURSERYMEN.

Melancthon studied the gravest points of theology, while he held his

book in one hand, and in the other the edge of a cradle, which he

incessantly rocked.

“M. Esprit, a celebrated author and scholar, has been caught by me,”

says M. Marville, “reading Plato with great attention, considering the

interruptions which he met, from the necessity of frequently sounding

his little child’s whistle.”