I am a time will be given as a reply to this question. The author was born at an uncertain date in the early part of this century. He was educated at a public school, and afterwards became connected with a commercial house of considerable eminence in a southern county. He has been a wanderer on the Continent, and has resided in one or two of the continental countries. He has been a tolerably diligent observer of men and things, and has acquired a tolerably accurate knowledge of one or two living languages. He has written a little for the press, and has been an occasional contributor to a Magazine of some standing. This is a tolerably accurate account of the personal history of the writer, and a tolerably correct description of his qualifications as a time will be given. He is not a very profound thinker,
