That a man—or rather his clothes—should be ‘stitched with gold’ is about on a par with ‘rolling in money.’ It does not require a very powerful imagination to trace the likeness supposed to exist between a person placing his arms ‘akimbo’ and making or imitating a two-handled vase. The ability to utilise whatever comes to hand, aptly put, ‘All is fish that comes to his net,’ regarded from another point of view, resolves itself into ‘Making arrows out of any wood.’ We are not aware—although, perhaps, some of our readers may be—of the origin of the advice contained in ‘Tell that to the marines.’ It is just possible, in times gone by, ‘the marines’ were a more credulous body of men than the majority of people; but be that as it may, our friends content themselves by saying, shortly, ‘to some others.’ The idea in ‘Talk of a certain personage and he’s sure to appear,’ is similarly embodied in the words, ‘As one speaks of the wolf, one sees his tail.’ Perhaps to ‘shave an egg’ is almost as difficult a task as to ‘skin a flint;’ and ‘to make with one stone two _coups_,’ about as arduous as ‘to kill two birds with one stone.’ These illustrations might be multiplied to a much greater extent, if necessary; but the foregoing will suffice. Of course, there are a number of English proverbs for which the French have no _real_ equivalents, and _vice versâ_. By ‘equivalent’ is here meant the same idea expressed in a similarly pithy, terse form, so as to come under the head of proverbs in either language. As it is true of individuals, that every one looks at things from his or her point of view, so it is more or less true of all nations; and it follows that, from the two nations here spoken of having different ideas on many subjects, and different ways of looking at things, it is not always possible to ‘transplant’ one idea satisfactorily into another tongue. Translators are often puzzled by such obstacles. Again, as also cannot fail to happen, many proverbs are identical, or nearly so, in words in both languages. The best use of proverbs is to illustrate, sum up, or emphasise what has already been said, in a brief and concise manner; or as a convenient form in which to give advice. Advice is sometimes, like physic, very disagreeable to take, and being administered in the form of a proverb-pill, is occasionally rendered less unpalatable. THE WILL OF MRS ANNE BOWDEN. IN TWO CHAPTERS.—CHAP. II. I called at the hospital twice or thrice, to see if any inquiry had been made for the mysterious and irritating parcel which I had so unwittingly appropriated on the 24th of February. I looked in the newspapers for advertisements of lost documents; I even myself advertised my possession of a sealed envelope, of which I gave as elaborate a description as so simple an object permitted. All in vain! Nobody seemed to want the packet, and it remained an unclaimed foundling on my hands.