TARTARIN SUR LA TAMISE.
M. Alphonse Daudet has gone back to his own country. He is pleased with us on the whole. We have learnt his language and read his books.
We are not so clever or intelligent as the French; but we are more stable of purpose and despise ridicule, and keep ourselves well informed about other countries. L'enfant dit vrai, peut-être!
Our women, however, are inferior to French women, as they lack either beauty or taste: and the less said about their looks and dress the better. Toujours galant, "le petit Chose!" Pécaïré! Tartarin has surpassed himself; and if he manages to persuade his fair compatriots that he is sincere in this, il aura bien mérité de la patrie; and will recover all his old popularity. Nothing will remain for him but to prove that we lost the Battle of Waterloo, and that the Lord Mayor is a more important person than Queen Victoria. After that, "Aux grands hommes de la France, la Patrie reconnaissante."
The Latest Edition of "The Chronicles of Holinshed," written by John "of that ilk." Honest John is outspoken. His motto is the truth and nothing but the truth—as far as he can recollect it. His memory appears to be good. John is Frank.
Dramatic temporary Proverb (adapted for Garrick Theatre).—"When the Hare is away the Willard will play."
