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the author says, when Sancho found the 
portmanteau, "he entirely forgot the loss 
of his wallet, his great-coat, and of his 
faithful companion and servant Dapple" 
(the ass). 
   Supper. Cervantes makes the party at 
 the Crescent tavern eat two suppers in 
 one evening. In ch. 5 the curate orders 
 in supper, and "after supper" they read 
 the story of Fatal Curiosity. In ch. 12 we 
 are told "the cloth was laid [again] for 
 supper," and the company sat down to it, 
 quite forgetting that they had already 
 supped.-Pt. I. iv. 
 CHAMBERs's ENCYCLOPIEDIA states that 
 "the fame of Beaumarchais rests on his 
 two operas, Le Barbier de Seville (1755) 
 and Le Mariage de Fiqaro." Every one 
 knows that Mozart composed the opera of 
 Figaro (1786), and that Casti wrote the 
 libretto. The opera of Le Barbier de 
 Seville, or rather Il Barbiere di Siviglia, 
 was composed by Rossini, in 1816. What 
 Beaumarchais wrote was two comedies, 
 one in four acts and the other in five acts. 
 -Art. "Beaumarchais." 
 CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL. We are told, in 
 a paper entitled  "Coincidences," that 
 Thursday has proved a fatal day with the 
 Tudors, for on that day died Henry VIII., 
 Edward VI., Queen Mary, and Queen 
 Elizabeth." If this had been the case it 
 would, indeed, have been startling; but 
 what are the facts ? Henry VIII. died on 
 Friday, January 28, 1547, and Elizabeth 
 died on Monday, March 24, 1603.-Rymer, 
 Fwdera, xv. 
 In the same paper we are told with 
 equal inaccuracy that Saturday has been 
 fatal to the present dynasty, "for William 
 IV. and every one of the Georges died on 
 a Saturday." What, however, says history 
proper? William IV. died on Tuesday, 
June 20, 1837; George I. died Wednesday, 
 
 
June 11, 1727; George III. died Monday, 
January 29, 1820; George IV. died Sunday, 
June 26, 1830; and only George II. died 
on a Saturday, "the day [so] fatal to the 
present dynasty." 
   CHAUCER says: "The throstle-cock sings 
 so sweet a tone that Tubal himself, the 
 first musican, could not equal it."---The 
 Court of Love. Of course he means Jubal. 
   CIBBER (Colley), in his Love Makes a 
 Man, i., makes Carlos the student say, 
 "For the cure of herds [ Virgil's] bucolicks 
 are a master-piece; but when his art des- 
 cribes the commonwealth of bees . . . I'm 
 ravished." He means Georgics. The Buco- 
 lies are eclogues, and never touch upon 
 either of these subjects. The diseases and 
 cures of cattle are in Georgic iii., and the 
 habits, etc., of bees, Georgic iv. 
 Cm (The). When Alfonso succeeded 
 his brother Sancho and banished the Cid, 
 Rodrigo is made to say: 
    Prithee say where were these gallants 
      (Bold enough when far from blows)? 
    Where were they when I, unaided, 
      Rescued thee from thirteen foes? 
The historic fact is, not that Rodrigo res- 
cued Alfonso from thirteen foes, but that 
the Cid rescued Sancho from thirteen of 
Alfonso's foes. Eleven he slew, and two 
he put to flight.-The Cid, xvi. 78. 
  COLMAN.    Job  Thornberry   says  to 
Peregrine, who offers to assist him in his 
difficulties, "Desist, young man, in time." 
But Peregrine was at least 45 years old 
when so addressed. He was 15 when Job 
first knew him, and had been absent thirty 
years in Calcutta. Job Thornberry him- 
self was not above five or six years older. 
  COWPER calls the rose "the glory of 
April and May," but June is the great rose 
month. In the south of England they 
begin to bloom in the latter half of May, 
and go on to the middle of July. April 
roses would be horticultural curiosities. 
 
 
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