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LINES ON MISS ADELAIDE KEMBLE.

_By Sir Lumley Skeffington, Bart._

_Supercelestial_ is the art she practises,
Transcending far all other living actresses;
Her father's talent--mother's grace--compose
This Stephen's figure, with John's Roman nose.

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PUNCH'S LETTER-WRITER.

DEAR PUNCH! VENERABLE NOSEY!

By the bye, was Publius Ovidius _Nuso_ an ancestor of yours? Talking of
ancestors, why do the Ayrshire folks speak of theirs as _four bears_
(forbears), it sounds very ursine. But to our _muttons_, as my old French
master used to call it. Do you do anything in the classico-historical
line, for the Charivaresque enlightenment of the British public; if so,
here is a specimen of a work in that style, "done out of the original:"--

THE DEATH OF CÆSAR:

A TOUCH OF THE CLASSICAL IN THE VULGAR TONGUE.