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A German Speisekarte (Have always been closely)

have always been closely associated, and what applies to one may well apply to the other. "Certainly," reasons Bulwer, "in the chase itself all my sympathies are on the side of the fox. But if all individuals are to give way to the happiness of the greatest number, we must set off against the painful fate of the fox the pleasurable sensation in the breasts of numbers which his fate has the honourable privilege to excite." Without the inconveniences that the Strassburg goose is compelled to undergo in behalf of the metamorphosis of its liver, the list of plats de prédilection were shorn of one of its greatest attractions, and a city now of world-wide fame must soon drag out a monotonous existence and be forgotten unless by the student of architecture-a fact duly set forth in the following stanza: "Strasbourg tire vanité De ses pâtés de foie; Cette superbe cité Ne doit sa prospérité Qu'aux oies!" (Can roasted Philomel a liver Fit for a pie produce?- Fat pies that on the Rhein's sweet river Fair Strassburg bakes. Pray, who's the giver?

A goose!)1 1 It should be distinctly stated that the rendition is by the late Rev.

Francis Mahony (requiescat in pace!). Recalling his scathing stricture on "The Rogueries of Tom Moore," one were unwise not to mention the name of the scholarly paraphrast and poet, for fear that he might arise to wreak summary vengeance. But inasmuch as no authorship is assigned to the poem by the versatile bard, and as one must be on guard most of the time against the subtile spirit of fun and malice which pervades his pages, it is probable that both the French song and the rendition are by the same accomplished hand.