MEN OF THE PAST.
(COMPILED BY THE MAN OF THE PRESENT.)
CROMWELL.—An English Brewer. Uncertain about his aspirates. Distinctly vulgar. Face disfigured by warts.
PETER THE GREAT.—Quite a common sort of Russian. Man with coarse tastes. Came to England to learn ship-building. Fond of low society; in fact, the type of an enterprising cad.
WASHINGTON.—Entirely provincial English rebel, who caused considerable trouble in America. Family fair, but not to be traced beyond three generations. Used to eat peas with his knife.
HANNIBAL.—Brutal barbarian. Feeblest ideas of stategy. Went the wrong way over the Alps. Given to oaths from childhood up. Quite a classical nobody.
BUONAPARTE.—A Corsican Parvenu.
The Garrick School.
School for young actors is the Garrick Playhouse.
Upon the road to fame a quarter-way house
For IRVING fils. And likewise note we there
The heir apparent of a parent HARE.
"DIO, age!" of which the classic American translation is, "Do tell!"