Who always seemed serene and bland; Who never asked for "cash in hand," Quite pleased that my account should "stand"? My Tailor! Who catered for the gilded throng, Who chid me when my taste was wrong, Whose credit--and whose price--was long?-- My Tailor! Who chatted when I felt depressed, Who proffered wine with friendly zest, Whose weeds were ever of the best?-- My Tailor! Who with sartorial oil anoints My vanity, who pads my joints, And fortifies my weakest points?-- My Tailor! But who in future, much I fear, Will greet me with no words of cheer, But talk of "settling"--language queer?-- My Tailor! Who silently will point his hand To figures white on black-board grand. Where all my unpaid "items" stand?-- My Tailor! Who'll thus expose me to my peers, Bring on me jibes, and flouts, and sneers, Male sniggerings, and female tears?-- My Tailor! Who'll frown when I suggest a loan, And ne'er produce Clicquot or Beaune, But for his "checks" demand my own?-- My Tailor! Who'll take my "measures" when he wills, But only if I take his "bills," And add one more to human ills?-- My Tailor! * * * * * TAKEN AS YOU LIKE IT. MY DEAR EDITOR, It was most kind of you to ask me to go to the St. James's Theatre, the other evening, to see Mrs. LANGTRY, after I had told you that since my recovery from the influenza, I had unfortunately lost my memory. "Don't you know anything about _As You Like It_?" you asked. I pondered deeply, and then replied, that I half fancied it was a GERMAN REED'S Entertainment, that would have gone better had it included a part for Mr. CORNEY GRAIN. You told me I was wrong, but intimated that my ignorance on the subject would make my notice the more impartial. So I went. As to the play--was I pleased with _As You Like It_? Well, I have known worse, but I have seen better. It seemed a mixture of prose and verse, with several topical allusions that appeared, somehow or other, to have lost their point. For instance, a dull dog of a jester (played in a funereal fashion by Mr. SUGDEN) stopped the action of the piece, for what seemed to me (no doubt the time was actually less) some three-quarters of an hour, while he explained the difference between the "retort courteous" and "the reproof valiant." The plot was as thin as a wafer, but as it is, no doubt, generally known, I need not further refer to it. Mrs. LANGTRY was a most graceful and pleasing _Rosalind_. She acted with an earnestness worthy of a better cause, and afforded not a trace of the amateur. Of Miss VIOLET ARMBRUSTER as _Hymen_, I might say, with a friend who spent several hours in knocking off the impromptu-- TO A SEASONABLE VIOLET.