"_Nolo interponere judicium meum._" His name reminds me that he married a _Cooke_, the daughter of Dr. William Cooke, Provost of King's College, Cambridge, for whom George the Third had so great a regard, that he extended it to his children. The Bishop and his wife being at Cheltenham when the King was there, and some person asking why his Majesty paid Dr. Hallifax such marked respect, was answered, "Sir, he married a _Cooke_." This being in the presence of THE CELEBRATED OXONIAN, DEAN TUCKER, "I, too," he facetiously remarked, "have a claim to his Majesty's attention, for I married _a cook_," alluding to the fact, that his second wife originally held that rank in his domestic establishment. * * * * * OH! FOR A DISTICH. A Pembrokian Cantab, named Penlycross, having written an Essay, a candidate for the Norrisian prize (which it was necessary he should subscribe with a Greek or Latin motto, as well as a sealed letter, enclosing his name, after being for a time at a loss for one,) and having an ominous _presentiment_ of its rejection, he seized his pen and subscribed the following on both: "Distichon ut poscas nolente, volente, Minerva, Mos sacer? Unde mihi distichon? En perago." "Without a distich, vain the oration is; Oh! for a distich! Doctor, e'en take this." * * * * * SKELETON SERMONS. The author of the Pursuits of Literature ridicules the epithet "Skeleton Sermons," as "ridiculous and absurd," speaking of those of the Rev. Charles Simeon, M.A. now Senior Fellow of King's College. When, in 1796, that divine published his edition of _Claude's Essay on a Sermon, with an Appendix containing one hundred Skeleton Sermons_, the celebrated Dr. William Cooke, father of the late Regius Professor of Greek, was Provost of King's, and to him, as in duty bound, Mr. Simeon presented a copy. The Provost read it with his natural appearance of a proud and dignified humility, and, struck with the unfortunate and somewhat ludicrous title of _Skeleton Sermons_, "Skeletons! skeletons!" he exclaimed, in his significant way, "Shall these dry bones live?" What would the Provost have thought and said, had he lived to see an edition of them in ten volumes 4to. price ten guineas? * * * * * I WISH HE HAD PAID IT FIRST. The present Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, being told that one of his pupils, the author of "ALMA MATER," had therein published his bill, coolly replied, "I wish he had paid it first." Another Cantab had-- A MIND TO MAKE TRIAL OF THE STOCKS,