[P. 46.] Fire and Ale. By Horace Smith.
[P. 49.] Playhouse Musings. By James Smith.
[P. 52.] Drury Lane Hustings. By James Smith. The 'Pic-Nic Poet,' in parodying the popular songs of the day, seems a very good imitation of the improvisings for which Theodore Hook came to be famous. The description suggests, however, that no particular writer was aimed at in the parody. Both James and Horace Smith had ten years before been contributors to a short-lived magazine entitled the Pic-Nic.
[P. 54.] Architectural Atoms. By Horace Smith. Thomas Busby (1755-1838), organist, musical composer, and man of letters. By way of supplement to the authors' note it may be said that the Address printed in the newspapers at the time as that sent in by Dr. Busby, and parodied by Lord Byron (see p. 174), was not the Address actually sent in, for that (preserved in the British Museum) begins:
Ye social Energies! that link mankind
In golden bonds—as potent as refined!
Byron used quotation effectively in Don Juan, Canto I, ccxxii.:
'Go, little book, from this my solitude!
I cast thee on the waters—go thy ways!
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,