PUFFING. The art of puffing was familiar to our forefathers. The following advertisement appears in a London Journal of 1750: At Mr. Figg's great room to-morrow, the 20th of this instant May, by the command of several noblemen and others, will be shown, in full proof, the judgment of the sword in all its noble branches, offensive and defensive. We Mathew Masterson, sergeant from Gibraltar, and Rowland Bennet, from the city of Dublin, in the kingdom of Ireland, masters of the said science, both having lately tasted our error by unwarily receiving wounds from Mr. Figg, and resolving, if possible, to return the keen rebuke by our chastising swords, make this challenge, the hostility of our confederate arms, inviting them to the brightest of their performances, Mr. Figg taking Mr. Gill to his assistance, and fighting us at the time and place above for the benefit of the whole house, which Mr. Masterson and the said Gill are solely to have to themselves; the victor of them two defraying all charges, and taking the surplus to himself as free plunder. It is that makes a soldier a Cæsar or a Marius, without the help of Lilly, who was most unmercifully whipped, last Wednesday, in quarto, by a Yorkshire jockey with Roman epithets, in order to extort rules for declining a good house in favour of the present tense singular; but the grammatical tit, being too high-mettled to be verb-ridden, left his Elorian corrector in an infinitive ill-mood, coafounded in particles in search of the great negativenothing. MATHEW MASTERSON, ROWLAND BENNET.' In December, 1731, Figg and Sparks contended with the broad-sword at the French or Little Theatre in the Haymarket, before the Duke of Lorrain, Count Kinski, and many persons of distinction. One of the papers of the day observes, The beauty and judgment of the sword was delineated in a very extraordinary manner by those two champions, and with very little bloodshed: his serene highness was extremely pleased, and ex pressed his entire satisfaction, and ordered them a handsome gratuity.' THE WANDERING JEW. The learned of Europe once thought they had discovered, in a man named John Buttadœus, the identical wandering Jew, respecting whose existence people formerly entertained very little doubt. The wandering Jew is said to have been present at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, but, by some offensive conduct, by sceptical obduracy, or selfish unconcern, exciting the attention and resentment of the great martyr for mankind, a entence was passed on him that he should live till our saviour appeared again; a punishment indeed severe if disease and infirmity were to keep pace with increasing years. 'Buttadœus' says a writer in the early part of the eighteenth century, was seen at Antwerp, in the thirteenth, again in the fifteenth, and a third time in the sixteenth century, with every appearance of age and decrepitude. • Paul Eitsen, Bishop of Sleswick, had frequent and long conversations with him; he was also seen by the chaplain of an Armenian archbishop, and by several other persons of credit and respectability.' DR. FRANKLIN'S EPITAPH. Dr. Franklin's well known epitaph on himself, as a printer, is of later date than the following epigram, which most probably suggested the idea : The World. The world's a book, writ by th'eternal art The world's a printing-house, our words are thoughts, Each soul's a compositor, of whose faults The Levites are correctors, and heaven revises; Earth is the common press, from which being driven, We're gather'd, sheet by sheet, and bound for heaven. 2 G INDEX. Abruzzo, Tale of the, 284. Album, Lines written in an, 139. American Quakers, 208. Broken Heart, the, 151. Card Maker, Epitaph for a, 158. Church-yard Wanderings, No. 1. 35. Conde Lucanor, the, 113. Cortez, 102. No. II. 71. Cowell, W. M. On the Death of Captain Clapperton, by, 112. Crowquill, Alfred, The Two Farmers, by, 1. The Lover's Stra- Das Besem Madchen, 200. Dr. South, 52. Dr. Franklin's Epitaph, 309. Duo, the, 135. Echo of Genetey, 103. Epitaph for a Card Maker, 158. Epigrams, 51, 169. Extracts from the Common-Place Book of a Literary Lounger, 52, 102, 157, 207, 307. Fair Maid of Perth, the, 272. Farmers, the Two, 1. Female Heroism, 137. Festival of the Rose, 147. Fitzroy, 307. Florentine Girl, the, 48. Forget me not, the, 29. Fragmenta, No. VIII. Lines on the Death of a Friend, 49. No. IX. On a general Lover, 49. No. X. To a Lady, on being observed to Weep in Funeral Oration of Francis I. 208. General Lover, on a, 49. Glenlogan, 121. Goethe, 157. Golden Tooth, the, 160. Hibernian Acuteness, 104. Hobby-Horse, my, 8, 62, 128, 200, 228. No. V. Blind Bards, 122. Hunchbacks, the Three, 109. Indian Convert, an, 157. Irish Exile, 59. Isabella de Miranda, a Tale of Olden Spain, 17. Jew, the, 8. Kilcolman Castle, Ireland, 105. Klephts, the, 24, 164. Lady Arabella Stuart, 38. Last of the Quarters, the, 288. Letter from the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette, to her Sister, Lines on the Death of a Friend, 49. Lines written on reading some early Poems of a deceased Friend, Lines written in an Album, 139. Lines on the Death of a Friend, 145. Lines on Miss Helen St-t, 302. Lines on hearing an Eolian Harp at a distance, 306. Literary Lounger, Extracts from the Common-Place Book of a, 52, 102, 157, 207, 307. Love, Friendship, and Hope, 127. Lovers, the, 170. Lover's Stratagem, the, 261. Mackenzie, R. Shelton, The Irish Exile, by, 59. Mad Mary, 128. Malediction, the, 189. Marie Antoinette, 303. Minstrel's Grave, the, 199. My Hobby-Horse, or the Lucubrations, Opinions, Recollections, Lucubration II. The Widow Wife, 62. Lucubration IV. Das Besem Madchen, 200. Munchausen, 102. Newman, J. D. Pennyworth of Puns, by, 23. Epigram, by, 51. Ode to the Thames, 90. On Love, 37. On a general Lover, 49. On the Death of Captain Clapperton, 112. Pass of Kicktruagh, the, 94. Points of Humour, The Three Hunchbacks, from, 109. Puffing, 398. Reasons for Emigrating, 52. Rosabel, 73. Scraps and Sketches, 50. Selling One's Body, 207. Selwy, W. E. On Love, by, 37. Fragmenta, No. X. To a Lady, Similes, 127. Sketch, a, 2/0. Sleep of Plants, 158. Soignies, the White Witch of, 75. Song from the French, 7. Song of the Swiss Exile, 118. Song to the Evening Star, 156. South, Dr. 52. Spell, the, 176. Stanzas, 138, 146. Street Singer, the, 188. Troubadour's Song, the, 305. Turks in the Sixteenth Century, tle, 307. Two Farmers, the, 1. Use of an Opposition in Parliament, 157. Wandering Jew, the, 309, What are Stars? 150. White Witch of Soignies, the, 75. Whittington and his Cat, 159. Widow Wife, the, 62. Window Gleanings, 207. Woman's Hour, £2. Woman Created, 164. |