The Poet’s Corner.

“M. E. B.”—The only English translation of Goethe’s “Faust” we can recommend is that made by Gen. Zachary Taylor, one of our ex-presidents.

Mrs. Hannah More Gardiner, president of the West-Side Browning Club, has suffered a keen bereavement in the demise of her pet poodle, whom she had named Robert, in honor of her favorite poet. While not wishing to invade the sanctity of the gifted lady’s grief, we cannot forbear saying that this lamentable occurrence has cast a gloom over the whole community; and the dispensation seems all the more distressing, since deceased left a numerous infant progeny.