100,000 welcomes![34] 100,000 welcomes!! And 100,000 more!!! Oh! happy birds of Eden, Sing like the Star of Sweden, Yes, yes, like Nilsson sing, birds, And make the island ring, birds, As no land rang before; And let the welkin roar, To wel_kin_ her to shore; Let miles of echo shout it, And sparkling fountains spout it, Let leagues of lightning flash it, And tons of thunder crash it; Let pouring rainfalls hail her name, And fiery earthquakes sound her fame, Till sky, and sea, and shore Join in a vast _encore_, 100,000 welcomes, And 100,000 more! * * * * * In justice to Mr. Tupper it must be admitted that these are not _exactly_ his lines, but only a very fair parody of them taken from _The Lays of the Saintly_, by Mr. Walter Parke. (London, Vizetelly, 1882.) ――――:o:―――― DR. FELL. I do not like thee, Dr. Fell, The reason why I cannot tell; But this alone, I know full well, I do _not_ like thee, Dr. Fell. This little nursery rhyme claims ancient lineage. In Thomas Forde’s “Virtus Rediviva,” 1661, in a collection of familiar letters, is the following passage:―― “There are some natures so Hetrogenious, that the streightest, and most gordion knot of Wedlock is not able to twist, of which the Epigrammatist (Martial) speaks my mind better than I can myself:―― Non amo te Sabide, nec possum dicere quare, Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te. Take the English in the words of a gentleman to his wife:―― I love thee not, Nel, But why, I can’t tell; But this I can tell, I love thee not, Nel.” The following is Clément Marot’s version as given in Chapsal’s ‘Modèles de Littérature Française,’ ii. p. 26:―― Jan, je ne t’aime point, beau sire: Ne sais quelle mouche me point, Ni pourquoi c’est je ne puis dire Sinon que je ne t’aime point. Another version, by Roger de Bussy, Comte de Rabutin (_ob._ 1693), ran as follows:―― Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas, Je n’en saurois dire la cause; Je sais seulement une chose; C’est que je ne vous aime pas. [Illustration] JOHN DRYDEN. BORN August 9, 1631. | DIED May 1, 1700. (_Was Poet Laureate from 1670 till the accession of William III. in 1688, when he was superceded by a Protestant poet, Thomas Shadwell._) In the year 1683, a musical society was formed in London for the celebration of St. Cecilia’s Day, and from that time a festival was held annually on November the 22nd in Stationers’ Hall, and an Ode, composed for the occasion, was sung. These festivals continued, with a few interruptions, down to the year 1744, and some were held at even a later date; but these celebrations must not be confounded with the performances given by the “Cecilian” Society, which was established in 1785.