non sufficeret orbis."

That of Tasso:--

"Les os du Tasse."

Similar to which is that of Dryden:--

"Dryden."

The following is that of General Foy, in Pere la Chaise:--

"Honneur au GENERAL FOY.
Il se repose de ses travaux,
Et ses oeuvres le suivent.
Hier quand de ses jours la source fut tarie,
La France, en le voyant sur sa couche entendu,
Implorait un accent de cette voix cherie.
Helas! au cri plaintif jete par la nature,
C'est la premiere fois qu'il ne pas repondu"

The following is said to have been written by "rare Ben Jonson," and has
been much admired:--

"Underneath this stone doth lie
As much virtue as could die;
Which, when alive, did vigour give
To as much beauty as could live."

To these could be added several others, but at present we shall content
ourselves with quoting the two following, as specimens of the satirical
or ludicrous:--

_Prior, on himself, ridiculing the folly of
those who value themselves on their
pedigree_.

"Nobles and heralds, by your leave,
Here lie the bones of Matthew Prior,
The son of Adam and Eve,
Let Bourbon or Nassau go higher."

* * * * *

"Here, fast asleep, full six feet deep,
And seventy summers ripe,
George Thomas lies in hopes to rise,
And smoke another pipe."

B. T. S.

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The following inscription, in a churchyard in Germany, long puzzled alike
the learned and the unlearned:--

O quid tua te
be bis bia abit
ra ra ra
es
et in
ram ram ram
i i
Mox eris quod ego nunc.

By accident the meaning was discovered, and the solution is equally
remarkable for its ingenuity and for the morality it inculcates:--"O
superbe quid superbis? tua superbia te superabit. Terra es, et in terram
ibis. Mox eris quod ego nunc."--"O vain man! why shouldst thou be proud?
thy pride will be thy ruin. Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.
Soon shalt thou be what I am now."

W. G. C.

* * * * *

THE COSMOPOLITE.

WET WEATHER.

(_For the Mirror_.)

"John's temper depended very much upon the air; his spirits rose and fell
with the weather-glass."--ARBUTHNOT.

No one can deny that the above is a _floating_ topic; and we challenge all
the philosophy of ancients or moderns to prove it is not. After the