[5] Cockney rhyme for which the Premier-Poet’s present model Edgar Poe, is responsible.
“Old Father Noah he built him an ark,
And set it afloat in St. James’ Park,” &c.—Old Song.
[7] The name of one of Mr. Poe’s Poems.
[8] It was announced that Mr. Irving intended to make his first appearance in New York in his celebrated part of Mathias in “The Bells.”
[9] The Right Hon. George Otto Trevelyan, M.P., Author of a Biography of Lord Macaulay.
[10] A nick-name applied to the Right Hon. W. E. Forster, M.P., by the Home Rulers.
[11] The dragon-ship of the Norse mythology.
[12] The Fates and Furies.