_London Magazine._

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PARTY.


Two dogs cannot worry one another in the streets without instantly
forming each his party among the crowd; much more then does the principle
apply to higher contests.

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THE ANECDOTE GALLERY.

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MOLIERE.


At the town of Pezénas they still show an elbow-chair of Molière's (as at
Montpelier they show the gown of Rabelais,) in which the poet, it is
said, ensconced in a corner of a barber's shop, would sit for the hour
together, silently watching the air, gestures, and grimaces of the
village politicians, who, in those days, before coffee-houses were