QUOTATIONS WANTED.

"Quid levius calamo? Pulvis. Quid pulvere? Ventus.

Quid vento? Meretrix. Quid meretrice? Nihil."

"What is lighter than a feather?

Dust. The wind more light than either.

What is lighter than the wind?

Airy, fickle, womankind.

What than womankind is lighter?

Nothing, nothing—but the writer."

X. Y.

"The knights are dust,

Their good swords are rust,

Their souls are with the saint, we trust."

C. M. O'Caoimh.

"Circles are prized, not that abound

In greatness, but the exactly round.

Thus men are honoured, who excel,

Not in high state, but doing well."

G. C. H.

"Ill habits gather by unseen degrees,

As brooks to rivers, rivers run to seas."

"The clanging trumpet sounds to arms,

And calls me forth to battle:

Our banners float 'midst war's alarms,

The signal cannons rattle."

T. W.

"Of whose omniscient and all-spreading love,

Aught to implore were impotence of mind."

"He no longer shall dwell

Upon that dirty ball,

But to heaven shall come,

And make punch for us all."

A Septuagenarian.

"Sometimes, indeed, an acre's breadth half green,

And half strewed o'er with rubbish, may be seen.

When lo! a board, with quadrilateral grace,

Stands stiff in the phenomenon of space,

Proposing still the neighbourhood's increase,

By, 'Ground to let upon a building lease.'"

H. W.

"Then what remains, but well our parts to chuse,

And keep good humour whatsoe'er we lose."

F. W. J.

"Bachelors of every station,

Listen to my true relation."

Also a ballad describing the visit of a countryman and his wife to Oxford. Both of Berkshire origin.

"A fellow feeling makes us wond'rous kind."

W. V.

"Sir John once said a good thing."

Ξανθος.