New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-05-25

the first four lines for instance:
| "Of eggs sing though classic pedants may
| Curl their Greek lips cOntemptuous, at my proem,
What. thana theme suggested by lay
| Could meeter be for an imRromrtu poemfn s9@ .r
Will it be believed that although the poem ex-
tends to sixteen times as much, all bursting with
effort, not hint is given about the writer's g lay"
He ought to have had Matsell's Vocabulum by
him He would have found LAY" defined as ga
particular kind of rascality, trade, profession
on the lookout; watching for something to steal.
Sometimes the same as gait. what's the cove's
layN Why, you see, he is on the ken's crack
house breaking.n What a fund might the IN
fortunate author not have found in this! OF
course, no one would think of defining his "lay'
as particular kind of rascalty'' OF anything Of
the kind. No one could " steel" his heart to any
such Barber-ous critter-schism. Still less could
the author himself. But evenhe might have made
something out of the old saw about as full Of
meat as an egg,n by gently insinuatipg something
about It's beng meet yhaL in nis metro, he should
say something meeter than that And SO forth.
Take the next four lines:
"Euterpe's self drew music from shell,
But on no muse contemplate encroaching;
Eggs may be served up daInty and well
without resortiug to Parnassan poachngu
And we find that he allows to pass unheeded the
opportunity Of exposing the selfish Euterpe for
depriving poor shellfsh at once of his music and
of his covering just for the sake of stealing his
exanthems-the eggs for Joseph Barber and the
anthems for any other man. He ought to have got
that celebrated ex-actress, Adah, to aid him she
would have been well able to explain to him the
undue turpitude of Euterpe's proceedings, as sure
as eggs is eggs" and she's an actress!
This is enough on the eggs.citing subject. Doubt
less, if it were continued further some of our
readers would get exasperated; which, of course,
would not be exactly the thing wherefore, e1t Z
OLD QUoTATIoN DISPUTED" Thus when shun
scylla, your father" says Launcelot to Jessica,
fall into Gharybdis your mother;r and the
author of Familiar Quotations" says in note
referring to this ..s, r-.y- -
lncidis in Scyllam cupiens Vitare Charybdim-
PHILIPPE GuALTGER, (twelfth centnry,) Darius,
Book w
This line % You fall into Scylla wishing to avoid
Charybds,' or something like it, has been attrib-
uted to Horace, to Ovid, and to Virgil; but is not
to be found in either of them The nearest to it is
in the third book of the lEneid, line 8s3 ct seq:
Contra jussa moment Heleni scyam atque Charybdim
Inter utramque yiam lehi discrimine parvo.
Nj teneant cursus.n
con the other hand, the orders of Helenus direct
that they should not run between Scylla and
Charybdis, each means of destruction, with little
choice between them"
1t might not be thought necessary to go into
these details but that there are editions of the
Gradus dd Pd,RdSsune which attribute the first
line to one of the poets named; and that in addi-
tion to this, French work before us, and pub
lished not more than five years ago. attributes it,
with good deal Of fcircumstantiality as the 301st
line Of the 5th book of the AleIdndreide Of Phil.
ippe Gualtier de Lille who wrote in the thirteenth
| century. And this authority adds that of this
poem, which was long, according to Henri Gand,
(Catalog. Viror. ilnstr.; c. XXIID, the favorite
reading Of learned men, nothing more remains.
We are unable to pursue the subject any fur
| ther at present Perhaps some of our readers or
contributors may be able to clear up tile dfscre-
pancies, They may not be so great as they may
seem at a first blush. Darius would naturally
enough be connected with the AleXandrede, and
the year 1901 Or 1899 might readily enough be in
advertenty referred to as in the twelfth century,
instead of the thirteenth.
| THAT CURRY.-A promise of one of the best
curres that the cunningest cusinier of this epicu-
rean city knows how to prepare is thing worth
currying favor for and somebody is preparing
himself to enjoy it by studying Francatelli and
Soyer, Blot and Punch. The last named authority
is evidently no chicken y in curry matters, for,
although he gives tolerably wide scope for
curry dishes, he dishes or dashes all our hopes OF
q chicken-ourry after Punch, treats it as myth
ignores it,-and, worse than all, leaves US in won
derng dubiety as to the reason of this contumeli-
Gus treatment Of perhaps, the most delicate of all
the curry family. Surely, the author of the Poet
cal Cookery Book was not ignorant or innocent of
chiGkencurry If not, why slur it over in treating
of curry in general? Was it owing to any hurry
scurry in composition? or was it that he also OBJ.
jected to rce-curry, having no desire to intimate
any love for old rye, any more than for old
chicken? We pause for reply In the mean.
time, as perhaps the preparers and the lovers Of
rice-curry and ehicken-curry may like to know
what sorts of curry Mr.. Punch admits into the cur
riculum of the Poetical Cook, we give his formu.
larry at length;
Three pounds Of veal my darling girl prepares,
| And chops ii nicely into little squares;
Five onions noxt prepares the little mink
| THE biggest tho best her samtwel thinks;
And Eppiug butter Reary halfa pound
| And stews them IN pan until they're brown'd
| "What's next my dextrous little girl will do?
| She pops the meat into the savory stew;
| With curry POWDER table spoOnfuls three,
| And milk pint Che richest that maybe);
And when the dish has stswed for half an hour,
lemons ready juice she'll oer it pour
Then, bless her then she gives the luscious pot
| A very gentle holland serves it hot
| up. S.-Bee, mutton, rabbit, if you wish
Lobstsrs. or prawns, or anySkind of fish,
Are fit to make CURRY. 'Tis, when done,
| A dish for Emperors to feed upon"
| 1t is to be hoped that it will also be found dish
for others besides emperors to feed Facts and Fic-
tons upon! If not, we shall certainly go over to
| Maximilian and let him feed us on it, in accord
anc6 with the suggestion of Mr.. Punch that is, il
he inttmates his appreciation of Mr.. Punch's pro.
position, and his readiness to act upon it for our
special behOof and qualification.
A Coon SFEwARD,-The Prussians have vol
umes of anecdotes with which they love to illus
trate their admiration for Frederick the Great
cold Fritz" as they famiarly call him. And
well he deserves of them. CaVil at him who may,
from PageneI to Carlyle, about his faults, he was,
indeed, great man, He carried his country
through unparalleled trials with almost incredible
success--so as to be "enabed to leave his nephew
and successor Rrellorganized kingdom, one half
Iarppr than IL hod ltapn at hiS apensqinp with