e _Court Journal_, too, tells us that a few days since Lord Lansdowne
met with "a severe accident," by which "he suffered no material injury."
The Queen's dress at her last ball was "white and silver, striped with
blue." The song says--
To be nice about trifles
Is trifling and folly;--
but the _modistes_ can gather little from such a description as the
above.
In the Zoological Gardens is a pheasant, one of whose feathers measures
5 feet 11 inches in length!
A "_Charming Fellow_,"--The records of the Horticultural Society inform
us that _Lady_ Cochrane has been elected "a Fellow of the Society."
VEDI PAGANINI E MORI.
See Paganini, and then _die_!
I beg to tell a different story;
And to the _bowing_ crowd I cry,
See Paganini, and then Mori!
_Court Journal._
In a List of New Books and Reprints we find one by "Bishop Home; in
silk, 2s. 6d."
_Epitaph on Spenser._
_In Spenserum._
Famous alive and dead, here is the odds,
Then god of poets, now poet of the gods.
The Philomathic Society of Warsaw have elected Mr. Campbell a
corresponding member, as "Campbell _Tomes_ Poete Anglais."--_Literary
Gazette._
_Anatomy._--The price for unopened subjects in Paris is 5 francs, or 4s.
2d.; and 3 francs, or 2s. 6d. for opened ones.--_Lancet_.
* * * * *
THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
Vol. XVII. of the MIRROR,
With a Steel-plate Portrait of this illustrious Individual, Memoir, &c.,
50 Engravings, and 450 closely printed Pages, will be published on the
30th instant, price 5s. 6d. boards.
Part 110, price 10d., will be ready on the same day.
The Supplementary Number will contain the above Portrait, a copious
Memoir, Title-page, Index, &c; and, from its extension beyond the usual
space, will be published at 4d.
* * * * *
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