Sad nymphs of UL, U have much to cry for, Sweet MLE K U never more shall C! O SX maids! come hither and VU, With tearful I this M T LEG. Without XS she did XL alway— Ah me! it truly vexes 1 2 C How soon so DR a creature may DK, And only leave behind XUVE! Whate'er I O to do she did discharge, So that an NME it might NDR: Then Y an SA write? then why N? Or with my briny tears her BR BDU? When her Piano-40 she did press, Such heavenly sounds did MN8, that she, Knowing her Q, soon I U 2 confess Her XLNC in an XTC. Her hair was soft as silk, not YRE, It gave no Q nor yet 2 P to view: She was not handsome: shall I tell U Y? U R 2 know her I was all SQ. L8 she was, and prattling like AJ. O, little MLE! did you 4 C The grave should soon MUU, cold as clay. And U should cease to B an NTT! While taking T at Q with LN G, The MT grate she rose to put a(:) Her clothes caught fire—I ne'er again shall C Poor MLE, who now is dead as Solon. O, LN G! in vain you set at 0 GR and reproach for suffering her 2 B Thus sacrificed: to JL U should be brought And burnt U 0 2 B in FEG. Sweet MLE K into SX they bore, Taking good care her monument to Y 10, And as her tomb was much 2 low B 4, They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to I 10.

New Monthly Mag.

Notes of a Reader

A NEW CYCLOPAEDIA

A "Cabinet Cyclopaedia" is announced for publication, under the superintendance of Dr. Lardner. It is to consist of a series of "Cabinets" of the several sciences, &c. and upwards of 100 volumes, to be published monthly, are already announced in the prospectus; or nine years publishing. The design is not altogether new, it being from the Encyclopaedie Methodique, a series of dictionaries, now publishing in Paris; and about four years since a similar work was commenced in England, but only three volumes or dictionaries of the series were published. If this be the flimsy age, the "Cabinet Cyclopaedia" is certainly not one of the flimsiest of its projects; and for the credit of the age, we wish the undertaking all success.

"A GENTLEMAN"

Is a term very vaguely applied, and indistinctly understood. There are Gentlemen by birth, Gentlemen by education, Gentlemen's Gentlemen, Gentlemen of the Press, Gentlemen Pensioners, Gentlemen, whom nobody thinks it worth while to call otherwise; Honourable Gentlemen, Walking Gentlemen of strolling companies, Light-fingered Gentlemen, &c. &c. very respectable Gentlemen, and God Almighty's Gentlemen.—Blackwood's Magazine.

ROMAN THEATRES

There are five theatres at Rome to a population very nearly as considerable as that of Dublin. Each of these establishments is the property of one of the noble families in the city, who prefer doing by themselves what is usually done in England by committee.

CATS AND FELINE ANIMALS (once more!)

Animals of the cat kind are, in a state of nature almost continually in action both by night and by day. They either walk, creep, or advance rapidly by prodigious bounds; but they seldom run, owing, it is believed, to the extreme flexibility of their limbs and vertebral column, which cannot preserve the rigidity necessary to that species of movement. Their sense of sight, especially during twilight, is acute; their hearing very perfect, and their perception of smell less so than in the dog tribe. Their most obtuse sense is that of taste; the lingual nerve in the lion, according to Des Moulins, being no larger than that of a middle-sized dog. In fact, the tongue of these animals is as much an organ of mastication as of taste; its sharp and horny points, inclined backwards, being used for tearing away the softer parts of the animal substances on which they prey. The perception of touch is said to reside very delicately in the small bulbs at the base of the mustachios.—Wilson's Zoology.

TEA AND TAY

From Blackwood's last "Noctes."

North. As you love me, my dear James, call it not tea, but tay. That though obsolete, is the classical pronunciation. Thus Pope sings in the Rape of the Lock, canto i.

"Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip with nymphs their elemental tea."

And also in canto iii—

"Where thou great Anna, whom these realms obey, Dost sometimes counsel take, and sometimes tea."

And finally in the Basset Table—

"Tell, tell your grief, attentive will I stay, Though time is precious, and I want some tea."

Shepherd. A body might think frae thae rhymes, that Pop had been an Eerishman.

"MERRY ENGLAND."

The people of England, we fear, have at last forfeited the proud title of "merry," to distinguish them from other and less happy, because more serious, nations; for now they sadden at amusement, and sicken and turn pale at a jest; so entirely have they forfeited it, that an ingenious critic cannot believe they ever possessed it; and has set himself accordingly to prove, that, in the old English, merrie does not mean merry, but sorrowful, or heart-broken, or some such thing.—Edin. Rev.

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Notes of a Reader

A NEW CYCLOPAEDIA

"A GENTLEMAN"

ROMAN THEATRES

CATS AND FELINE ANIMALS (once more!)

TEA AND TAY

"MERRY ENGLAND."

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