TWELFTH NIGHT—NOT BY SHAKSPERE.
A- MODERNIZED "Twelfth Night," in which the Duke of BOR.. DRAUX is introduced as a substitute for Malvolio, has had a great run in the French newspapers : the author, however, appears to have been an English journalist. The Duke is made to fall into his day-dream of "greatness thrust upon him," by drawing the bean in a Twelfth-night lottery at the Earl of SHREWSBURY'S at Brighton. "Au grand plaisir," says the journal now before us, "et a la surprise de toute fassenablee, il a en la feve et a ete Ce bon augure," &c. Perhaps this "good omen" may throw some light upon the Pythagorean maxim, "Abstain from beans," which has puzzled commentators. The soundness of the advice in the present instance, in so far as the Duke of BORDEAUX is concerned, Is beyond question. He will abstain from beans if he wish to save his bacon. Sure, never since the days of Jack and the Bean- stalk has so fine a castle in the air been reared on a bean.
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