... abandoned rakes, Old comedy wvill live: it dies we find, Seen in the mirror of a muddy mind; 'Tis with the prudes you all should pick a quarrel, Who smirk and say, Old plays are so immoral ! Mr. Scott is perhaps a little too enthusiastic over his author ...

... Darrell (he was picked out of the Thames by Mr Wood, and adopted by that ex. cellent Samaritan ; hence his name; and having been bred up a carpenter, and secured the affections of Miss Wood, is kidnapped and flung into the sea, again picked up and handed ...

... pleasantry wounds more than it exhilarates, to speak of a book of Shelley's as the favourite quarry of a host of prurient garbage-seekers. No one knows better than the critic that the writings of Shelley contain no single passage, although the writings ...

... indeed it seems the only harmless amusement of the rich. Servants who will stay with .you, are the rarities of Mexico. You may pick up priceless diamonds in abundance, but look in vain for a faithful kitchen-maid. 4A girl will go to service merely to earn ...

... perience. These especially point to the direct transference of disease by media charged with the products of decom- posing garbage. Professor Rudolph Virchow, the most eminent living pathologist, an authority whose utterances on all questions of the propagation ...

... In his last days the brilliant gambler had no one to smooth his pillow but a lorette, whom he saw when he was near death picking from his shelves his choicest specimens of old Sevres china, on which, turning to his doctor, he said with a smile, Qu'elle ...

... above bridges there! Ay, let vessels ground awhileandtrafficof thenight bestayed. Bring cunning men with line and plummet, and pick and spade, and barrow and basket; clear off the miud and filth, tenderly wash white faces, deal gently with the matted splendour ...

... raw ham and sausages that she had eaten. d Pork is the dangerous meat, the pig gets trichinse by eating dead rats and other garbage, and if the pig's flesh p be not so thoroughly cooked as to kill the worms it may n carry living trichinae into the human ...