self, to the no small terror of the bookseller, with projected and curvetting arms, into the formidable attitude of a lion-rampant; and succeeded at length, by this happy effort, in suggesting to the imagination of the staring Frenchman the idea of a lion! But another difficulty of a more arduous nature now presented itself: there were black, red, and white lions; of which last colour was the lion in question. Now, no two-footed creature under the sun could less exemplify the following maxim,

"That cleanliness is next to godliness,"

than the hero of this adventure; for Harvest was habitually very slovenly in his person. However, to complete the aggregate, and impress the idea, not of a lion only, but of a white-lion, upon the sensorium of Monsieur, Harvest unbuttoned his waistcoat and displayed his shirt: but, alas! like the mulberry-tree of old,—

66 Qui color albus erat nunc est contrarius albo."

This would have thrown but little light upon the subject, had not the polite Frenchman put a right construction upon the case, and extricated poor Harvest from his difficulty by a safe conveyance to

THE WHITE-LION!

BILL PAID IN FULL.

At Wimpole, formerly the seat of Lord Oxford, but now of Lord Hardwicke, there was to be seen a portrait

of Mr. Harley, the speaker, in his robes of office. The active part he took to forward the bill to settle the crown on the house of Hanover induced him to have a scroll painted in his hand bearing the title of that bill. Yet, soon after George the First arrived in England, Harley was sent to the Tower. This circumstance being told to Prior, whilst he was viewing the portrait, he took a pencil out of his pocket, and wrote on the white part of the scroll the date of the day on which Harley was committed to the Tower, and under it,

THIS BILL PAID IN FULL."

GRAY,

The poet, wrote the following character of himself which was found in a pocket-book after his death :

"Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, He had not the method of making a fortune:

Could love and could hate, so was thought somewhat odd, very great wit,—he believed in a God;

No

A post or a pension he did not desire,

But left church and state to Charles Townshend and Squire.

EPIGRAM.

Porson one day visiting his brother-in-law, Mr. Pwho at that time lived in Lancaster Court, in the Strand, found him indisposed, and under the influence of medicine. On returning to the house of a common friend,

he of course expected to be asked after the health of his relation. After waiting with philosophic patience, without the expected question being proposed, he reproached the company for not giving him an opportunity of giving the following answer, which he had composed in his walk:

My Lord of Lancaster, when late I came from it,
Was taking a medicine of names not a few;

In Greek an emetic, in Latin a vomit,

In English a puke, and in Vulgar a sp—w.”

LATIMER,

The pious and learned martyr, and Bishop of Worcester, who was educated at Christ College, Cambridge, and was one of the first reformers of the church of England, at a controversial conference, being out-talked by younger divines, and out-argued by those who were more studied in the fathers, said, "I cannot talk for my religion, but I am ready to die for it."

WHITE TEETH.

Professor Saunderson, who occupied so distinguished a situation in the University of Cambridge, as that of Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, was quite blind. Happening on a time to make one in a large party, he remarked of a lady who had just left the room, but whom he had never before met, nor heard of, that she had very white teeth. The company were anxious to

learn how he had discovered this, which was very true. "I have reason," observed the professor, "to believe that the lady is not a fool, and I can think of no other motive for her laughing incessantly, as she did for a whole hour together."

JOHNIAN HOG.

The following, amongst other reasons, is given as the origin of the students of St. John's College being denominated hogs. A waggish genius espying a coffeehouse waiter carrying a dish to a Johnian, who was seated in another box in the same coffee-house, asked, "if it were a dish of grains?" The Johnian immediately replied,

"Says

, the Johns eat grains; suppose it true, They pay for what they eat; does he so too?"

"TUES PORCUS."

There is a custom in the University of Cambridge of huddling, as it is called, or keeping an act, after the degree of A. B. is conferred. It so happened, that a gentleman had to keep one, whose name was Hogg, under a moderator who was of St. John's College, the men of which college had obtained the appellation of Johnian hogs, as have the men of Trinity the appellation of bull-dogs; and many other names are applied to the men of the different colleges, for the origin of which there is little but traditional evidence. On Mr. Hogg's

mounting the rostrum, he was addressed by the moderator, "Tu es porcus," (thou art a hogg). To which Mr. Hogg retorted, "Sed none grege porcorum," (but not of the herd of hogs).

NOVEL CONSTRUCTION OF A PAIR OF

BELLOWS.

At an examination in the Senate House, Cambridge, one of the questions given was, "to construct a pair of common bellows;" to which one of the students gave the following laconic answer:-" A pipe, two boards, a piece of leather, and a hole to put your knee in."

BACON,

Sir Nicholas, who was educated at Corpus Christi, or Benet College, Cambridge, being visited at his house by Queen Elizabeth, she observed, alluding to his corpulency," that he had built his house too little for him." "Not so, Madam," answered he; "but your Majesty has made me too big for my house.”

PALEY'S CONCEPTION OF THE CHARACTER OF FALSTAFF.

Paley, when young, was particularly fond of theatrical exhibitions, especially when any eminent performer appeared from the metropolis on the provincial boards near where he resided. This predilection never for