The Lord Mayor's Show.

In civic splendour and with footstep slow

Passed the procession, glorious and grand!

I liked the soldiers well enough, although

The men from Deal looked quite at home on land.

Yet I confess that when I came to go,

I said that once a year's enough to stand

The Lord Mayor's Show.


"The Black Art" Revived!—"The best specimen of the Black Art," quoth the Baron de B. W., "that I have lately seen, is the republication of the works of the Wizard of the North, alias Sir Walter Scott, Bart., in a series of substantial library-shelve-ish volumes, printed in good clear type."