scene, to let thee see where I have been. A stone from Simplon's dreadful height shall gratify thy curious sight. I'll climb the fiery Ætna's side to bring home treasures for my bride; and oh! my life, each ship shall bear a double letter for my fair!" "Ah, George!" the weep ing angel said, and on my shoulder fell her head, “for constancy, my tears are hostage-but when you write, please pay the postage!" SOMETHING LIKE POETRY. Tennyson claims to be a great poet, and yet he may fret and study and tear about for a week, and then can't yank an ode to a sawmill, while the sweet singer of Michigan only gave two minutes to whacking up one beginning: "All hail to thee, most terrible invention, Which chews up trees to any wished dimension, And when something distracts a man's attention, Will break him up so that a gov'ment pension Won't do him any good. Oh, fierce devourer thou of men and wood!" A PRINTER'S LITANY. From want of gold, from wives that scold, from maidens old, by sharpers "sold"-preserve us! From foppish sneers, mock auctioneers, and woman's tears-deliver us! From stinging flies, from coal-black eyes, and babies' cries-deliver us! From seedy coats, protested notes, and leaky boatsprotect us! From creaking doors, a wife that snores, confounded bores, and dry-goods stores-protect us! Fom shabby hats, and torn cravats, and flying brickbats-save us ! INDEX. ABERNETHY, Dr., 210 Address to my Sweetheart, 147 Albury church, chronogram at, 119 Alexander I. of Russia, 216 Alphabetic curiosities, 48 Altar, the, 263 American rivers, names of, 168 Amphigourie, 158 Anacreon, the Odes of, 24 Book-titles, alliterative, 33 echo Breitmann Ballads, the, III Ane New Year's gift, 30 Britannia's Pastorals, 131 Burton, Dr. Hill, 229 Butler on echo verses, 122 Charlotte, Princess, anagram on, 209 Christus ascendit ad cœlos, 177 Christus Cruxifixus, 47 Chronicle, a, 161 Churchill, 150 Clement, Jacques, 209 Coins and medals, chronographic, 119 Collins, Mortimer, 40; single-rhymed Cologne, church at, chronogram from, 118 Combinations of Latin words, 9, 10 Comedie of Supposes, the, 63 Commentary, Trapp's, 33 Come, love, come, a lipogrammatic song, Francillon, R. E., echo verse by, 135 François de Valoys, anagram on, 193 GEDDES, a macaronic writer, 101 German palindrome, 222 Gilchrist, Octavius, 87 Gingham Gown, the, 283 Golden Age, the, 79 Good-bye, Sweetheart, Good-bye, 283 Grime, Sarai, anagram on, 208 Dialogue between Glutton and Echo, Heaven, 136 anagram on, 194 Epigram from Scaliger, 166 Epitaph on a dog, 102 FAERIE Queene, the, 62 Field, the Cambridge printer, 242 Hécart, Gabriel, A. J., 193 Herbert, George, 136, 142, 154, 206, 263, Holmes, Randle, 202 Holy Alliance, the, anagram on, 209 Hugbald's Ecloga, 46 Human Heart, ode to the, 186 ICELANDIC verse, 18 Ignoramus, comedy of, 100 Iliad of Homer, the, in a nutshell, 11 Incontrovertible Facts, 66 Inscription, monumental, 269 Iskarriot, anagram on, 204 JAMES, King, anagram on, 195 Jonson, Ben, 203 KETTLE, Song of the, 272 LADIES, Panegyric on the, 148 Lasus, the Greek poet, 58 Florence Huntingdon, lines to Mi-s, 169 Lessius, Leonard, 127 Leti, Gregorio, 59 Life, 180 Life's Alphabet, 49 Lines by a medium, 163 "Our life is hid with Christ," 142 PALINDROMIC names, 218 Palm, bookseller of Nuremberg, 129 Lines to Miss Florence Huntingdon, 169 Pamperes, Ambrose, 215 Lingo drawn for the Militia, 97 Little Jack Horner, III Little John Nobody, 22, 23 Lipograms, 58 Lord Duff's Toast, 51 Love letter, alliterative, 45 Lydia Kane, acrostic to, 85, 86 MADRIGAL, 156 Marie Touchet, anagram on, 197 Martin, Mr. H., of Halifax, 237 Miller of Batheaston, Sir John and Mi Molle Anni, 109 Monastery, anagrams on, 211 Montgomery, Alexander, 31 Moral Proverbs of Christine of Pisa, 61 Morning on Arthur's Seat, 81 'My boast is in the Cross of Christ," 140 My Molly and I, 110 NAMES, palindromic, 218 ODE to an Old Violin, 268 Ode to the Human Heart, 136 Od Oak, the, 281 On Life, et cetera, 188 Panegyric on the Ladies, 148 Peacock, Dean, 34 Peignot, 230 Peleg Wale's machine, lines by, 171 People's Friend, cento from the, 189 Persian "Gazel," a, 59 Piers Plowman's Visions, 19 Platform, the, 146 Poets' Essay on Man, the, 181 Pope, portrait of, 14; on alliteration, 24, 159 Porson, Professor, macaronic by, 97 Prideaux, Bishop, chronogram on, 120 Psalm of Life, a Maiden's, 276 Purple Island, the, lines from, 152 QUARLES' Emblems, 28 RAVENING Reverie, a, 274 Richelieu, Cardinal, portrait of, 15 Rogers, the poet, 23 SABBATH, the, 259 Scaliger, 197; epigram by, 166 Scissors, ways of spelling, 16 Scot, Alexander, 30 Scott, Sir Walter, 39 Serenade in M flat, 34, 35 Seven Deadly Sins, Dance of the, 30 Shakespeare, alliterative lines from, 32; Tony's Address to Mary, 102 monosyllabic lines from, 115 Spanish Armada, lines on defeat of, 98 Spanker, 37 Spenser, 29 Stanislaus, King, anecdote of, 202 Stifelius, Michael, anecdote of, 121 Stuart, James, anagram on, 195 TALE of a dog, a, 278 To the Leading Periodical, 111 2 PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. 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