JONSON is rarely to be found in slippers, and the nearest thing to catching him in the confessional mood is to read the commonplace book quaintly published among his collected works as the Discoveries. You will not take him by surprise. These notes are set down, with deliberation, to be read. But they ramble through a multitude of subjects, and the care used in their writing does not detract from the sincerity of the views expressed.