Bard v. Bard.

There was a poor Poet named CLOUGH,

Poet SWINBURNE declares he wrote stuff.

Ah, well, he is dead!

'Tis the living are fed,

By log-rollers, on butter and puff.


A SUGGESTION.—In a new poetical play at the Opera Comique there is a good deal of hide-and-seek. It might have had a second title, and been appropriately called The Queen's Room; or, Secret Passages in the Life of Mary Stuart.