Turning to the records of the other professions, one finds a good deal of the same sort of thing. Literature affords such examples as those which are supplied in the well-known lines by John Henley on William Broome and by Lord Byron on Tom Moore ('Now 'tis Moore that's Little'). There were journal writers before Greville and Carlyle, and, when Lady Bury published her 'Diary of the Times of George IV.,' Hood, no doubt, was justified in crying, as he did: 'Oh, may I die without a Diary, And be interred without a Bury-ing!' In a very different spirit were James Smith's lines on Miss Edgeworth's works: 'Good and bad join in telling the source of their birth; The bad own their _edge_, and the good own their _worth_.' The vocal and histrionic arts have often had their victims. Who can possibly have forgotten Luttrell's famous compliment to Miss Tree: 'On this Tree when a nightingale settles and sings, The Tree will return her as good as she brings.' Here, if ever, was a pun on a name defensible. Less well known is this quatrain on the famous actor, William Farren, who died in 1861: 'If Farren, cleverest of men, Should go to right-about, What part of town will he be then? Why, "Farren-done-Without"!' Those ladies of beauty and fashion whose names were susceptible at once of pun and compliment have naturally inspired the wits of their respective days. Thus, it was said of the charming sisters Gunning, that Cupid, perceiving that the beaux of the time were proof against his darts, had now laid down his bow and conquered by 'gunning.' But perhaps the best thing of the sort ever composed was Lord Lyttelton's tribute to Lady Brown: 'When I was young and debonair, The brownest nymph to me was fair; But now I'm old and wiser grown, The fairest nymph to me is Brown.' Other celebrities could be named who came off badly in their encounter with the punsters. But, indeed, the list of such jests might be indefinitely extended, for the habit of making puns on patronymics has always been very widely spread, and has found many a sympathetic historian. 'YOURS TRULY.'