Cy gist—ouy gist par la mort bleu Le Cardinal de Richelieu, Et ce qui cause mon ennuy Ma pension avec lui. * * * * * The Jesuits called Crebillon ‘Puer ingeniosus, sed insignis nebulo.’ * * * * * Dr. E. Young published “A true Estimate of Human Life, Part I,” dedicated to Queen Anne, and describing the _shades_ of existence. The second part, however, which should have contained the lights never appeared. * * * * * The “Batrachomyomachia,” is nothing more than a burlesque poem, much in the manner of Aristophanes, and doubtfully attributed to Homer. Philip Melancthon however, wrote a commentary to prove the poet's object was to excite a hatred for tumults and sedition. Pierre La Seine going a step farther, thinks the intention was to recommend to young men temperance in eating and drinking. * * * * * “Amare et sapere vix Deo conceditur,” is not Seneca's as generally supposed. * * * * * The heathen poets are mentioned three times in the New Testament. Aratus in the seventeenth chapter of Acts—Menander in the fifteenth chapter of I Corinthians—also Epimenides. * * * * * “Semper sub Sextis perdita Roma fuit,” was a line written during the pontificate of Alexander VI. Sextus Tarquinius provoked by his tyranny the expulsion of the kings of Rome. Urban VI began the great schism of the West. Alexander VI astonished the world by the enormity of his crimes, and Pius VI did not falsify the saying. * * * * * A letter was once addressed from Rome “Alla sua Excellenza Seromfidevi,” in London. It caused much perplexity at the Post-office and British Museum, and after foiling the acumen of a minister of state, was found to be intended for Sir Humphrey Davy. * * * * * The vulgar Christian era is the invention of Dionysius Exiguus. * * * * * The book of Judith was originally written in Chaldee, and thence translated into Latin by St. Jerom. There are several particulars in our English version which are not to be found in St. Jerom's, and which seem to be those readings which he professes to omit as vicious corruptions. * * * * * The proverb, “Evil communications corrupt good manners,” which is found in Corinthians, is a quotation, intended as such, from Euripides. * * * * * Varro reckons three epochs: the first from the beginning of the world to the first flood, which he calls _uncertain_; the second from the flood to the first Olympiad, _fabulous_; the third from the first Olympiad to his own time, _historical_. * * * * * Politian, the poet and scholar, was an admirer of Alessandra Scala, and addressed to her this extempore: