The Abbè de St. Pierre has fixed in his language two significant words, viz: bienfaisance, and the diminutive la gloriole.
There is no particular air known throughout Switzerland by the name of the Ranz des Vaches. Every canton has its own song varying in words, notes and even language. Mr. Cooper, the novelist, is our authority.
Incidis in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charybdim
is neither in Virgil nor Ovid, as often supposed, but in the “Alexandrics” of Philip Gualtier a French poet of the thirteenth century.
Under a portrait of Tiberio Fiurilli who invented the character of Scaramouch, are these verses,
Cet illustre Comedien
De son art traca la carriere:
Il fut le maitre de Moliere
Et la Nature fut le sien.