MXVI.—A TRANSPORTING SUBJECT.
The subject for the Chancellor's English Prize Poem, for the year 1823, was Australasia (New Holland). This happened to be the subject of conversation at a party of Johnians, when, some observing that they thought it a bad subject, one of the party remarked, "It was at least a transporting one."
MXVII.—HARD-WARE.
A few years ago, when Handel's L'Allegro and Il Penseroso were performed at Birmingham, the passage most admired was,—
Such notes, as warbled to the string,
Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek.
The great manufacturers and mechanics of the place were inconceivably delighted with this idea, because they had never heard of anything in iron before that could not be made at Birmingham.
MXVIII.—PAINTING AND MEDICINE.
A painter of very middling abilities turned doctor: on being questioned respecting this change, he answered, "In painting, all faults are exposed to view; but in medicine, they are buried with the patient."
MXIX.—DOGMATISM
Is pupyism come to its full growth.—D.J.