Sir,--In the distich you have quoted from my Lectures at page 143 of your
last MIRROR, it should have been stated that the statue was a Cupid. The
original lines (Voltaire's) are--

Qui que tu sois, voici ton maître,
Il l'est, le fut, ou le doit être.

B. H. SMART.

_Connaught Terrace, Aug. 31._

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In Paris, when they break a window, the common people cry out,
"_quarante-cinq_," so as to produce a sound, in a measure harmonizing with
the accident. It is to them a capital joke, because _quarante-cinq_, (45)
is written with the two figures that make "_neuf_" (that is, in French,
either _nine_ or _new_.) The pun is ingenious.

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The worst of all knaves are those who can mimic their former
honesty.--_Lavater_.

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