13 MARCH 1869, page 20

But Then I Envelop My Pills In Tin-foil, And I Can't Do...

"In the course of my lifetime I've swallow'd enough To have floated a ship of the line, And it's purely the fault of this horrible stuff That I've ceased to enjoy ginger wine.......

The Russian Fabulist.*

NURSERY tales, popular songs, proverbs, fables,—all the natural artless literature that springs up mushroom-like from the soil of a country,—have long been acknowledged by the......