ON A MODERN ACTRESS.
ISS Neilson's 'benefit'," one says;
I ask to what the phrase refers;
For, sure, when such an artist plays,
The "benefit" is ours, not hers.
W. D. A.
UR king [William IV.] is ultra-popular. Have you heard Lord Alvanley's bon mot concerning him? He was standing at the window at White's, when the king, with a thousand of his loving subjects at his heels, was walking up St. James's Street. A friend said to him, "What are you staring at, Alvanley?" "I am waiting to see his Majesty's pocket picked," was the reply.
Miss Mitford, Life and Letters.
ETHINKS the lays of now-a-days
Are painfully in earnest.
Frederick Locker, London Lyrics.