EPITAPH ON MARSHAL SAXE. N.B. The figures are to be pronounced in French, as _un, deux, trois_, &c. Ses vertus le feront admiré de chac 1 Il avait des Rivaux, mais il triompha 2 Les Batailles qu' il gagna sont au nombre de 3 Pour Louis son grand coeur se serait mis en 4 En amour, c'était peu pour lui d'aller à 5 Nous l'aurions s'il n'eut fait que le berger Tir[3] 6 Pour avoir trop souvent passé douze, "Hic-ja" 7 Il a cessé de vivre en Decembre 8 Strasbourg contient son corps dans un Tombeau tout 9 Pour tant de "Te Deum" pas un "De profun"[4] 10 -- He died at the age of 55 [3] Tircis, the name of a celebrated Arcadian shepherd. [4] A great personage of the day remarked, that it was a pity after the marshal had by his victories been the cause of so many "Te Deums" that it would not be allowed (the marshal dying in the Lutheran faith) to chant _one_ "de profundis" over his remains. * * * * * ROUGE. A lady consulted St. Francis of Sales on the lawfulness of using rouge. "Why," says he, "some pious men object to it; others see no harm in it; I will hold a middle course, and allow you to use it on _one_ cheek." * * * * * A PARLIAMENTARY JOKE. The prevailing fashion of certain orators interlarding their speeches with frequent classical quotations, reminds us of a piece of mischievous waggery perpetrated by one of the greatest men of his time. Sheridan once electrified the country gentlemen in the House of Commons, by concluding an animated appeal to their patriotism, with a quotation from Herodotus, which they cheered most vociferously; when, in fact, he merely strung together a jumble of words, a jargon uttered on the instant, which sounded very much _like_ Greek. Pitt, it is said, was in a convulsion of laughter all the time. * * * * * THOUGHTS ON THE TIMES. There is not a word of news stirring. Yesterday's papers may serve for to-day's, and Sunday's for all the week. There is, as it were, a syncope in all things; nothing is doing; art, science, and business, are alike at a stand-still. The stage, the press, the easel, the loom, the rudder of the merchantman, and the helm of the state, all are alike in a most extraordinary negative condition. The world is in a catalepsy. It hears and sees, but it can do nothing.--_Blackwood_. * * * * * LIMBIRD'S EDITION OF THE _Following Novels is already Published:_