The opening sentences of this paragraph seem to have been deliberately modelled, as indeed is the whole essay, upon Sterne's character of Yorick in Tristram Shandy, Vol.

The number Seventhe favourite of Swift, (and how could it be otherwise than odd?) has, perhaps, led us into this rambling monologue on our merits; but we agree with Yorick in thinking gravity an errant scoundrel.

A small barrel organ now graces its gallery, which responded to the morning and evening service in Yorick's day.

Two females, elegantly attired in mourning, were parading the garden; immediately I saw them I thought of the beautiful Eliza; she to whom the fickle Yorick swore eternal attachment, and then "lit up his heart at the shrine of another," leaving Eliza to wonder "that fresh features Have such a charm for us poor human creatures.

EUGENIUS, the friend and wise counsellor of Yorick.

* PURPLE PATCHES FROM LORD YORICK'S GREAT BOOK.

Lord Yorick's Reminiscences, just published by the house of Hussell, abound in genial anecdote, in which the "personal note" is lightly and gracefully struck, in welcome contrast to the stodgy political memoirs with which we have been surfeited of late.

Miss Malory afterwards became Lady Yorick.

"At one of these dances at Yorick Castle Mrs. Mangold, afterwards Lady Rootham, was staying with us.

"Parson Yorick," as he styles himself in the book, was continually invited to add to it, with the result that between 1761 and 1767 eight more numbers were added to the original slim volume.

Mr. Yorick's curate's in the dressing room with the child upon his arm, waiting for the name; and my mistress bid me run as fast as I could to know, as Captain Shandy is the godfather, whether it should not be called after him.

Yorick's Sermons, iv. 109, n. 1. YORK, Address to the King, iv. 265; mentioned, iii. 439.

A conservatory without a fountain would be like "Hamlet" with Yorick's skull left out.

SEE Davis, Marcellus L. DAVIS, FREDERICK C. Poor, poor Yorick.

I began to perceive at last that he was feeling as Hamlet did when the bones of Yorick were unearthed; with a kind of luxurious pity for my mouldering conditions; touched, perhaps, a little by the thought that I was excluded from the bright and brave shows of earth, and sadly conscious of the odour of corruption.

It has been used for fifty or sixty years as a 'property' at the Walnut Street Theatre, whenever 'Hamlet' has been performed, and as 'Yorick's skull' has been handled in that play, from Edmund Kean down to Henry Irving and Edwin Booth.

Hamlet holding up the Skull which the Grave-digger threw to him, with an Account that it was the Head of the King's Jester, falls into very pleasing Reflections, and cries out to his Companion, 'Alas, poor Yorick!

By the way, it is strange that Yorick should incline rather to that which has no form, while Goldsmith is all form, as I myself aspired to be when the worthy Germans had convinced themselves that the peculiarity of true humour is to have no form.

[Footnote 27: See Hamlet's praise of Yorick.

I soon forgot an impotent cabal of mock-patriots; but the scene they vainly sought to disturb rushed on my mind, and, like Hamlet on the sight of Yorick's skull, I recollected the prosperity of Denmark when my father ruled, and compared it with the present moment!

like the skull o' Yorick in the churchyard.

But while there are many faults of taste and morals, there are also genuine humor and pathos, and without Walter Shandy, Dr. Slop, the Widow Wadman, Yorick, Uncle Toby, and Corporal Trim, English literature would certainly be very much the poorer.

* OUR YOTTING YORICK.

They take me for a Jew!"'Extract from Letter from Our Yotting Yorick.]

* MORE FROM OUR YOTTING YORICK.