A GENIUS.

(From the German of Claudius.)

"Friend Ass," said the Fox, as he met him one day,

"What can people mean?—Do you know what they say?"

"No, I don't," said the Ass; "nor I don't care, not I."

"Why, they say you're a GENIUS," was Reynard's reply.

"My stars!" muttered Jack, quite appall'd by the word,

"What can I have done that's so very absurd?"


Dedications (No. 17. p. 259.).—In Villaneuva's Dedication to the Duke of Medinaceli of his Origen Epocas y Progressos del Teatro Español (Madrid, 1802, sm. 4to.), the enumeration of the names, titles, and offices of his patron occupies three entire pages, and five lines of a fourth.

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