Knows how to vaunt, to logroll, and to bribe.
But there be those share not the general taint;
The pestle-wielding Sage, the silk-gowned Saint.
Redeem our fallen race from the dark shade
That would confuse Professions with mere Trade.
No, briefs and bills of costs _may_ loom too big,
_Harpagon_ hide beneath a horsehair wig,
_Sangrado_ thrive on flattery and shrewd knack.
And _Dulcamara_, safe in silence, quack;
But--chortle, oh ye good, rejoice, ye wise!--
Physic and Law will never--_Advertise_!

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"THE PARIAH."--In the latest copy to hand of that wonderful penn'orth
of gossip and information, _Sala's Journal_, Vol. I. No. 16, and in
the very first line of the light and leading article, our "G.A.S."
asks "Is Woman a Pariah?" Of course she is not, we reply, not even if
she be the very masculinest of females. Some, if they are "Riahs" at
all, are "Ma-riahs." "Riah," it may be remembered, is the abbreviated
form of the name as in the once popular Coster's song of "_What cheer
Riah?_" Whether spelt with or without an "h" is of no consequence, the
Coster not being particular.

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TO DR. LOUIS ROBINSON.

(_Who said at the British Association that a Baby was an
animal as interesting as any which had been brought from the