Only a Petrel, I,
But when my form you spy,—
Look out for shindy.
"Benefits Forgot."—This is the title of a serial in Scribners'. Many over-strict persons will not read it, being under the impression that the story is essentially theatrical. A natural mistake. Nothing in an actor's life could give occasion for more bitter reflection than the memory of "Benefits Forgot," especially after they had been got up and advertised at great personal expense.
TO A FINE WOMAN.
(By a Little Man.)
"Can my eyes reach thy size?"
Asked the Lilliputian poet,