age by composing characters and dialogues. One of Cutler. Will not economist satisfy your grace? now. Cutler. Well, I will own, I carried my economy too far. I had no one pleasure in life but thinking of my money, counting my money, watching my money, and increasing my money. We are told of a miser's will that was set aside, because he had ordered twenty penny loaves to be given to the poor. A will with such a bequest could not be genuine. Cutler, whose avarice Pope has made immortal, was twice married. Strange mistakes have, however, been committed and repeated about his wives. His first wife (we have looked into his story with more care, perhaps, than the subject deserves) was Elicia, daughter of Sir Thomas Tipping of Wheatfield, in the county of Oxford, Knight; so say the Baronetages and the records of the College of Arms. To which we have to add, that he was married to her in Stepney Church, in Middlesex, on the twentyseventh of July, sixteen hundred and sixty-nine, and that he was then in his sixty-first year. His second wife was Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Sir Thomas Foot, citizen and grocer of London, Knight and Baronet, Lord Mayor of London in sixteen hundred and fifty, and one of Cromwell's peers. This Sir Thomas had four daughters, all married to knights, or baronets, or both; and his likeness (he is in his robes as Lord Mayor) is still to be seen in marble, in a standing statue, in the church of West Ham, in Essex. He was a native of Royston, in Cambridgeshire, near to Wimpole, in the same county. Cutler died a widower, leaving only one daughter-old Tipping's grand-daughter. She was married to the earl in the year sixteen hundred and eighty-nine, died (childless) on the thirteenth of January, sixteen hundred and ninety-six-seven; and was buried at Lanhydrock, near Bodmin, in Cornwall, Both Lady Portman (old Foot's granddaughter) and her husband, Sir William Portman, died before Sir John Cutler. Lady Portman is buried in the Church of St. Bennet, Grasschurch. If there is truth in Pope's picture, the "only daughter" of the Moral Essays was the Countess of Radnor. Was Pope likely to be well informed of Cutler's story or is his picture only in parts true? Of Pope's means of information there can be no doubt. His near neighbor at Twickenham was that very Earl of Radnor, who was married to the only daughter of the miser, Sir John Cutler. Last requests and dying wishes, what are ye but a name? Cutler, who desired, by will, that he should be buried without any sort of pomp, as near as it may be to his last wife, if he died within ten miles of London, was buried at a cost of above seven thousand six hundred and sixty pounds. It was with Cutler as with Hopkins When Hopkins died, a thousand lights attend My Lord Cromarty, after four-score, went to his HISTORICAL WORDS.. the deeds of the heroes of the time. In this case, No history abounds more than that of France in execution of Louis XVI., the beautiful sentence put It would be an easy task to demonstrate that There is also a word commonly attributed to the mance-writer-always denied the statement; and the Duc d'Artois had found his mot; and the next day the papers made it known to the world, and, as an old French author says, "In this manner history is written."-Chambers' Journal. SULTAN KRIM GHERRY. Alexander Ivanowitch, Sultan Krim Gherry, was a native of the Crimea. He was next heir to the Ottoman throne, had the present line become extinct. About 20 years ago he visited Edinburgh, to complete his studies, and becoming acquainted there with an interesting young lady, named Miss Neilson, he so far forgot the precepts of the Koran, as to take her according to christian customs, "for better, for worse." The Sultan was not as successful in learning the English language, as he was in wooing the Scotch maiden; for it is recorded of him, that when taking leave of a favorite hostess before leaving the country, he expressed his anxiety for her future welfare, in these remarkable words:'Madame, may the Lord pickle you." 66 ANECDOTE OF GARRICK. Garrick, we are told, had given a dinner at his lodgings to Fielding, Maclin, Havard (the comedian), Mrs. Cibber and others; and veils to servants being then much in fashion, Maclin, and most of the company, gave Garrick's man (David, a Welchman) something at parting-some a shilling-some a halfcrown, whilst Fielding very formally slipped a piece of paper in his hand, with something folded in the inside. When all the company were gone, David seeming to be in high glee, Garrick asked him how much he had got. "I can't tell you yet, sir," said David. "Here's half-a-crown from Mrs. Cibber, Got bless her-here's a shilling from Mr. Maclin-here is two from Mr. Havard and here is something more from the poet, Got pless his merry heart." By this time David had unfolded the paper, when to his great astonishment, he saw it contained no more than one penny! Garrick was nettled at this, and next day spoke to Fielding about the impropriety of jesting with a servant." Jesting!" said Fielding, with seeming surprise; "so far from it, I meant to do the fellow a real piece of service; for had I given him a shilling or half-a crown, I know you would have taken it from him; but by giving him only a penny, he had a chance of calling it his own."-Life of Henry Fielding. ODD TITLES OF BOOKS IN FORMER TIMES. And an In 1686 a pamphlet was published in London, en- ven Penitential Psalms of the princely Prophet David; We come now to an anecdote of a more pleasing There are recorded, in the history of mankind, many words with which everybody is acquainted, and in the genuineness of which everybody believes. Sometimes the whole signification of a great event lies, so to say, hidden in them. They give vent to a common and public feeling, and therefore they are accepted by high and low, with no more distrust than the fact itself to which they refer. Antiquity has transmitted to succeeding ages many! words, both simple and sublime, worthy of NOTES AND QUERIES. [We notice a disposition on the part of the press to copy the matter in this column without crediting the CRITERION therefor. Editors will oblige us by correcting this impropriety.] PRINTING IN RUSSIA-The first printing office in Russia was established in 1560, but was destroyed by the people from a superstitious fear that it would cause some confusion or change in their religion. F. Y. THE remark of Charles Lamb that "truth was precious, and not to be wasted," seems to me to have had a relation' It is said to have been a common remark of the notorious Blueskin that "a lie was a thing too valuable to be wasted.'' A good thing from Bacon on the same subject was, that falsehood to truth was like alloy of gold and silver, that made the metal work the better. XIV. "How ridiculous a play would be of which a hungry man were the hero!" So exclaims Sidney Smith; yet we have sufficient proof that it would be no such thing, as I think whoever has seen Mr. Fisher play James Triplet will agree with me. This, however, is in a comparatively small way. Would it be ridiculous to see such a man as Betterton, who could turn pale at the appearance of the ghost in Hamlet, playing in a tragedy of which Otway were the hero? And how often have I seen divers "perriwig-pated" fellows strive with all their force, and all in vain, to render ridiculous this short scene of Shakspeare, the argument of which is hunger: DUKE SENIOR, AMIENS, JACQUES, AND LORDS. Enter ORLANDO, with his sword drawn. ORLANDO. Forbear, and eat no more. JACQ. Why, I have eat none yet. ORL. Nor shall not till necessity be served. DUKE S. Art thou thus boldened, man, by thy distress? Or else a rude despiser of good manners, The thorny point ORL. You touched my vein at first. But forbear, I say- I almost die for food, and let me have it. DUKE S. Sit down and feed, and welcome to our table. I thought that all things had been savage here; And therefore put I on the countenance Of stern commandment. But whate'er you are, That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If ever you have looked on better days; If ever been where bells have knolled to church; If ever sat at any good man's feast; If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied; Let gentleness my strong enforcement be: In the which hope I blush and hide my sword. This is the vein of the scene. As it is not necessary to any unravelling of the story, but only an aid to work out the general effect of distress that Orlando is thus represented as suffering from hunger, I cannot but think that Shakspeare was of a different mind in this matter from Sidney Smith. BUSKIN. City of Hudson, N. J., Dec. 15th, 1855. To the Editor of the Criterion, N. Y. 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