At a rehearsal of As You Like It, Mrs. Billington, who sustained the principal female character, called out in a very peremptory manner, "Fellow, bring me my crook." Mr. Simmonds, the property-man, immediately replied, "Madam, your fellow is not here." She felt the rebuke, and made the request more successfully in more proper language; thus by hook or by crook obtaining it.

Cato the Censor only repented of three things during his life—to have gone by sea when he could go by land, to have passed a day inactive, and to have told a secret to his wife.

"GONE TO JERICHO."

Tradition says that there is more than one place in the county of Essex to which Henry VIII. used occasionally to retire with his mistresses. One of these was Blackmore, at some distance from Shenfield. The manor-house of Blackmore is called Jericho; so when Harry chose to retire with his mistresses, the cant phrase among the courtiers was, "He was gone to Jericho." Hence this proverb or saying.

HALBERT H

HUMBLE, OR UMBLE PIE

The shanks and feet of a buck being called umbles, were formerly made into a pie for the retainers or feudal servants. Hence arose the old saying of "You shall eat humble pie."

HALBERT H

Says Tom, "Your lass look'd like a winter's day, When last I saw her with the Misses Flirty." "Indeed, you're merry, but tell me pray?" "Why, then," quoth Tom, "she was both short and dirty."

W.G—y

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From the time of Alcibiades to the reign of Mahommed II., Constantinople has undergone twenty-four sieges.

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Indisposition has as yet prevented our witnessing the representation of Rienzi; but we have been told by our play-going friends that every scene is listened to with marked attention, and that many passages are judiciously applauded. We are glad to hear this, because it is strong encouragement for other dramatists, and leads us to hope that tragedy-writing may still be revived among us, and that with greater success than has attended many recent efforts.

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The passage between commas is omitted in the representation, but we know not why.

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The portion of this sum paid for the literary department would form a curious item in the records of genius, especially in contrast with Milton's five pounds for his Paradise Lost.

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MRS. BILLINGTON

"GONE TO JERICHO."

HALBERT H

HUMBLE, OR UMBLE PIE

HALBERT H

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