Lucretius.—­A summary of that part of the system of Lucretius, in which he describes man emerging from barbarity, acquiring the use of language, and the knowledge of various useful and polite arts, is comprised in a few lines of a satire of Horace, lib. i. sat. iii. v. 97.  It has been ingeniously paraphrased by Dr. Beattie: 

  “When men out of the earth of old,
  A dumb and beastly vermin crawled,
  For acorns first and holes of shelter,
  They tooth and nail and helter-skelter,
  Fought fist to fist; then with a club,
  Each learned his brother brute to drub;
  Till more experienced grown, these cattle
  Forged fit accoutrements for battle. 
  At last (Lucretius says, and Creech)
  They set their wits to work on speech;
  And that their thoughts might all have marks
  To make them known, these learned clerks
  Left off the trade of cracking crowns,
  And manufactured verbs and nouns.”

H.H.

Every trade has its technicalities.  The other day we overheard a lamplighter complain of a cunning fellow workman who tried to get all the straightforward work himself, and to leave the turnings to others.

A Physician’s Advice to his Student.

  “Dum aeger ait—­Ah! ah! 
  Tu dicito—­Du! du!”

A free translation is requested.

H.H.

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