ear among his collected poems:--

JOB'S LUCK, BY S. T. COLERIDGE, ESQ.

"Sly Beelzebub took all occasions
To try Job's constancy and patience;
He took his honours, took his health,
He took his children, took his wealth,
His camels, horses, asses, cows,--
Still the sly devil did not take his spouse.
"But heav'n, that brings out good from evil,
And likes to disappoint the devil,
Had predetermined to restore
Two-fold of all Job had before,
His children, camels, asses, cows,--
Short-sighted devil, not to take his spouse."

This is merely an amplified version of the 199th epigram of the 3d Book
of Owen:

"Divitias Jobo, sobolemque, ipsamque salutem
Abstulit (hoc Domino non prohibens) Satan.
Omnibus ablatis, misero, tamen una superstes,
Quae magis afflictum redderet, uxor erat."

Of this there are several imitations in French, three of which are given
in the _Epigrammes Choisies d'Owen_, par M. de Kerivalant, published by
Labouisse at Lyons in 1819.

S.W. SINGER.

Mickleham, 1850.

* * * * *

STRANGERS IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.

(Vol. ii., p. 17.)

As far as my observation extends, i.e. the last thirty-one years, no
alteration has taken place in the practice of the House of Commons with
respect to the admission of strangers. In 1844 the House adopted the
usual sessional order regarding strangers, which I transcribe, inserting
within brackets the only material words added by Mr. Christie in 1845:--

"That the Serjeant-at-Arms attending this house do, from time to
time, take into his custody any stranger or strangers that he
shall see or be informed of to be in the house or gallery
[appropriated to the members of this house, and also any
stranger who, having been admitted into any other part of the
house or gallery, shall misconduct himself, or shall not
withdraw when strangers are directed to withdraw] while the
House or any committee of the whole House is sitting, and that
no person so taken into custody be discharged out of custody
without the special order of the House.

"That no member of the House do presume to bring any stranger or
strangers into the house, or the gallery thereof, while the
House is sitting."

This order appears to have been framed at a time when there was no
separate gallery exclusively appropriated to strangers, and when they
were introduced