THE MICROSCOPE, EDITED BY A FRATERNITY OF GENTLEMEN. "Tros Tyriusque mihi pullo discrimine agetur."-Virg. VOL. I. NEW-HAVEN: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY A. H. MALTBY & CO. No. 4, Glebe-Building. 1820. I. The MICROSCOPE shall be issued twice a week; on Tuesday and Friday mornings. II. It shall be printed on good paper, and each number shall consist of 4 octavo pages. III. The price of each number shall be three cents. Subscribers to pay quarterly, and may discontinue the paper at the close of the first, or of any subsequent quarter. WELL, Sophia! said my friend to his lady, what shall we call our son? Shall he bear the name of an endeared and beloved ancestor; or shall we have something to suit the fancy? And if the latter; shall it be a modest and unassuming title, or shall it be of such a cast as to evidence, and that pretty clearly too, our prognostications of his future eminence?-Somewhat similar, if we may be permitted to compare small things with great, are the puzzling perplexities experienced by the periodical writer about to appropriate a name to the fruit of his mind. In precisely such a dilemma, we are frank to say, we now find ourselves. The perplexity in our case arises not from our believing that there is any thing like "magic in a name." It certainly cannot be much matter what it is, provided always that it does not promise too much and thus expose us to derision. But our difficulty lies partly in selecting from the goodly number that present themselves, and then partly again in afterwards adhering rigidly to the one selected. While reverting to our worthy predecessors, buoyed up by a little exhilarating self-complacency, and our views being considérably elevated withal; we have sometimes thought of the Instructor, the Guardian or the Connoiseur. At other times the Observer, the Spectator, or the Looker-On have appeared more appropriate. At other seasons again when we have re |