30 SEPTEMBER 1876, page 19

Dictionary Of Shakespearean Quotations.*

" Mucrx quotation of any sort," says Sir Hugo Mallinger, in George Eliot's latest novel, "even in English, is bad. It tends to choke ordinary remark. One cannot carry on life......

Sir John Davies.*

A minor Italian poet, one Pontanns, having asked in a Latin , distich what it was that grew bigger the more you took from it, got for his answer, " Pontano demas carmina, major......