upon it as a serious misfortune to them that the two words Gloire and Victoire rhyme together:  they so constantly occur in that portion of their poetry which is the most popular, and the best calculated to excite them in a high degree—­their vaudeville songs—­that the two ideas they express have become identical in their minds; and he will deserve well of his country who shall discover the means of making glory rhyme to peace.—­Ibid.

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“HELP YOURSELF.”

The custom of HELPING ONESELF has its sanction in the remotest antiquity, and has been continued down to the present day in the highest places, and by those whom it especially behoves to set example to the world.  It was clearly never designed that man should regulate his conduct for the good of others, for the first lesson taught to the first of men, was to take care of himself; had it been intended that men should study the good of each other, a number would surely have been simultaneously created for the exercise of the principle, instead of one, who, being alone, was essentially selfish.  Adam was all the world to himself.  With the addition of Eve, human society commenced; and the fault of our first mother furnishes a grand and terrible example of the mischief of thinking of the benefit of another.  Satan suggested to her that Adam should partake of the fruit—­an idea, having in it the taint of benevolence, so generally mistaken—­whence sin and death came into the world.  Had Eve been strictly selfish, she would wisely have kept the apples to herself, and the evil would have been avoided.  Had Adam helped himself, he would have had no stomach for the helping of another—­and so, on his part, the evil temptation had been obviated.

The HELP YOURSELF principle has at no time been extinct in society, while it is seen to be a universal law of Nature.  The wolf helps himself to the lamb, and the lamb to the grass.  No animal assists another, excepting when in the relation of parent to young, when Nature could not dispense with the caprice of benevolence, which in this instance, be it observed, distresses the parties susceptible of the sentiment; for suckling creatures are always in poor condition.  Appropriation is the great business of the universe.  The institution of property is, on the other hand, artificial.—­Ibid.

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BALLET OF KENILWORTH, AT THE KING’S THEATRE.

There is a very curious and ingenious, though not original, exhibition in this ballet.  Among the festivities at Kenilworth Castle, in honour of the royal guests, a pantomimic “masque” of the gods and goddesses of Olympus is introduced.  The divinities, instead of appearing in genuine Grecian attire, present themselves in the mongrel costume visual on such occasions in the time of Queen Elizabeth.