After The Last Popular Science Lecture.

The views , too , weren ' t they quite lovely ? Especiall y Mount Blank and the Alps ; Though the last ones were perfectly frightful—Those men with the clubs and the scalps .

Well , may be they didn ' t have scalpses , They fri ghtened me all just the same ; And that animal—was ' nt he horrid 1 The—what did he say was his name 1 Oh ! I perfectly dote upon science ! I think it ' s just jolly good fun ;

And I wish I was going on your expe—Dition , with knapsack and gun . Mamma says I ' m getting strong-minded , And should cut off my hair , and all that ; Though eye-glasses would not become me , And how could I keep on my hat ?

Here ' s the end of our walk—now , good night , Sir ! You may call Wednesday evening , dear Rob , And we'll talk of the Glacial Epoch , And the wonderful thingum-a-bob .

Tom Hood.

TOM HOOD .

"He sang the Soug of the Shirt . " By Bro . EHEA HOLMES , Author of Lectures ou " Public Speakiug ; what it is , aud what it might be " ; " Charles Dickens " ; and " Odds aud Ends of Wit and Humour . " Delivered at Ipiswich , Colchester , and

Saxmundham , and reivritten for the MASONIC MAGAZINE . IN the Christmas of this year the first " Comic Annual " appeared . It was dedicated to his friend , Sir Francis Freeling , then Secretary to the Post-Blaster

General . A cojiy was sent to the late Duke of Devonshire , who warmly thanked him for it , and begged Hood to write him some titles for a door of sham books at Chatsworth . Hood succeeded to admirationand a

, ¦ wonderful punning list of titles was sent to his Grace soon afterwards , some of - < 7 hich I must give you , as they are very clever and worth noting : —

Tom Hood.

Kosciusko ou the Eights of the Poles to Stick Up for Themselves . Prize Poems , iu Blank Verse . On the Site of Tully ' s Offices . The Rape of the Lock , with Bramah's Notes . Haughty-Cultural Remarks on London Pride . Annual Parliaments ; a Plea for Short Com . mons .

Michan on Ball Practice . On Sore Throat aud the Migration of the Swallow . By S . Abernethy . Scott and Lot . By the Author of " Waverley . " Debrett on Chain Piers . Voltaire , Volney , Volta . 3 vols . Peel on Bell ' s System . Grose ' s Slaug Dictionary ; or Vocabulary ol

Grose Language . Freeling on Enclosing Waste Lands . Elegy on a Black Cock , Shot amongst the Moors . By W . Wilberfovce . Johnson ' s Contradictionary . Sir J . Lawrence on the Complexion of Fairies aud Brownies . Life of Jack Ketch , with Cuts of His Own

Execution . Barrow on the Common Weal . Hoyles Quadrupedia ; or Rules on All Fours . Campaigns of the British Arm . By one of the German Leg . Cursory Remarks on Swearing . On the Collar of the Garter . By Bliss Bailey , of Halifax .

Shelley ' s Conchologist . Recollections of Bannister . By Lord Stair . The Hole Duty of Man . By J . P . Brunei . Tide ' s Tables of Interest . Chantrey on the Sculpture of the Chipaway Indians . The Scottish Boccaccio . By D . Cameron . Cook ' s Specimens of the Sandwich Tongue .

Iu-i-go on Secret Entrances . Hoyle on the Game Laws . Memories de La-porte . From this arose an acquaintance which lasted till Hood ' s death . The Duke ' s acts of considerate kindness never varied or failed , and he was one of the most liberal subscribers to the Monumental

Fund . Assistance of great service was rendered b y him to the poet , in the shape of a volunteered friendl y loan , which Hood thus acknowledges in a letter to . the Duke : — " I hesitate to intrude with details , but I know the goodness which originated one obligation will be gratified

to learn that the assistance referred to has been and is of the greatest service in a temporary struggle , though arduous enough for one of a profession never o verburdened with wealth , from Homer downwards . Indeed the nine Muses seemed to have lived all in one house for cheapness . Between 1831 and 2 , Hood , it appearshad some connection with the stage , in tk 6