VINCENT T. STERNBERG. * * * * * EXAMPLES OF THE FRENCH SIZAIN. The epigram (if it may with propriety receive that appellation) printed in Vol. vi., p. 603., reminded me of some similar pieces of composition stored in my note-book; and as they are not devoid of a certain degree of curious interest, I now forward them _pro bono publico_. On Luther, Calvin, and Henry VIII., the leaders of the Reformation: "Vous, dont le sens est encore sain, Fuyez Luther, Henri, Calvin. Vous, dont le coeur n'est point flétri, Fuyez Calvin, Luther, Henri. Vous, à qui le salut est cher, Fuyez Henri, Calvin, Luther." On the death of Francis II.: "Par l'oeil, par l'oreille, et l'épaule, Trois rois sont morts naguère en Gaule; Par l'épaule, l'oreille, et l'oeil, Trois rois son entrés au cercueil; Par l'épaule, l'oeil, et l'oreille, Dieu a montré grande merveille." By Beaumarchais: "Connaissez-vous rien de plus sot Que Merlin, Bazire, et Chabot? Non, certes, il n'est rien de pire Que Chabot, Merlin, et Bazire; Et nul ne vit-on plus coquin Que Chabot, Bazire, et Merlin." A more modern one still, date 1842: "L'Etat est fort mal attelé Avec Thiers, Guizot, ou Molé; L'Etat marche tout de travers, Avec Molé, Guizot, ou Thiers; Vers l'abîme il court à galop, Avec Molé, Thiers, ou Guizot." The prophecy in the last two lines has been unfortunately fulfilled. W. PINKERTON. Ham. * * * * * EPIGRAMS. The two epigrams which follow were communicated to me many years ago by the Rev. George Loggin, M.A., of Hertford College, long one of the masters of Rugby School. He died July 15, 1824, at the age of forty; and this reminiscence of their old tutor's name will be welcomed by many a Rugbæan. They were represented to have proceeded from the pen of Thomas Dunbar of Brasenose, who, from 1815 to 1822, was keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. I have never seen them in print, or even in writing. They were recited _memoriter_, and from memory I write them down; and hence, no doubt, there will be some deviations from the true text. But they seem too good to be lost; and I am not {175} without hope that a correct copy may eventually be elicited from some of your correspondents. With regard to the first, whether the lines were really made on the occasion stated, or the occasion was invented (as I am inclined to suspect) to suit the lines, is perhaps not very material: "_Reply to Miss Charlotte Ness, who inquired the meaning_ _of the logical terms_ ABSTRACT _and_ CONCRETE. "'Say what is _Abstract_, what _Concrete_? Their difference define.' 'They both in one fair person meet, And that, dear maid, is thine.' 'How so? The riddle pray undo.' 'I thus your wish express; For when I lovely Charlotte view, I then view loveli-_Ness_.'"