ART-UNIONS.

That picture-raffles will conduce to nourish
Design, or cause good colouring to flourish,
Admits of logic-chopping and wise sawing,
For surely lotteries encourage drawing.

Hood.

THE BEST CIRCLE.

Let mathematicians and geometricians,
Talk of circles' and triangles' charms,

The figure I prize is a girl with bright eyes,
And the circle that's form'd by her arms.

LADIES' DRESSES.

When dress'd for the evening, the girls now-adays

Scarce an atom of dress on them have ;

Nor blame them; for what is an evening dress But a dress that is suited for Eve?

LIGHT-FINGERING.

He grasp'd my hand for emphasis,

While I to talk with him was lingering;
When he had gone, I found that I'd
Lost, by his fingering, my finger ring.

MANNA.

When, through the wilderness, by Moses led, Food for the faithful fell from Heaven each morn, They wonder'd much to be so strangely fed, Because they were not to the manna born.

CONCLUSION.

There adern owh asrea chedt heend
Oft hissm allbo okofwi tt icis ms;

Initth ere 'snot hin gtooff end,

No rtode ser vehars hcriti ci sms.
Ther e 'slaug hteri n't—

Th ere 'sw isdo min 't:

Wi thtri flesl igh tasair

Thebo oki sfil led;

An dhew ho 'sw il led

Ma yfre elyh aveas h are.