6 OCTOBER 1866, Page 23

We accepted at once the sors Tupperiana, and feel assured,

in the exercise of faith rather than of reason, that there is good necessity for the flourishing of "P roverbial philosophy." We hope that we shall thus escape the designation of "fond caviller," and in the full conviction that whatever is is right, even the issue of 200,000 copies of the work in question, trust that .wisdom may be justified of all her children, the 200,000 purchasers included, though we do not see quite how.