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BRISTOL, MAGAZINE. No. 8. Monday, April 30, 1832. Half-penny. 3Eliu*tratc& Article. THE STAGE COACH. We often lose the informa¬ tion which we may derive from the contemplation of the common occurrences of human life, because, we are apt to at¬ tach too trivial importance to scenes, whose frequent repeti¬ tion renders us familiar with them. One writer of some importance has taken the world as the foundation upon which he has built his tale of fiction; another takes a less extensive view of human life and con¬ fines his sphere of observation to a town or village. What an ample illustration of the principles, feelings, frailties, and errors of human nature may we not depicture from the occurrences which.trans.pire in the most humble and unim¬ portant family. Fiction is not rendered so interesting by its representation of the outcasts and excrescens.es of nature, as. when it faithfully portrays the "romance of real life $" the strong and yet: natu¬ ral passions of the human mind; be they murky or generous, whether they be, heavy as Seneca, or light a,s Plautus,. I will take my bird's-eye view of a stage coach. ByiuaW) niajay