METHODISM AND MOLIÈRE.

“It is good to be merry and wise.” It is difficult to be wise and not to be merry. A few years back, when, in Dublin, it was a rage to be “serious,” some very foolish things took place, which, as they belong to the Chronique Scandaleuse, shall find no room here. It was then the fashion to give tea and tract-parties, to the exclusion of gay faces and pleasant conversation. I remember, on the same night Mrs. Fry preached at a party at Mrs. ——’s in Merrion-square, La Porte read out a comedy of Molière’s at my soirée in Kildare-street. We both gave “Les Précieuses Ridicules,” in our several ways; but my guests went away laughing, and hers yawning. L’un portant l’autre, mine had the best of it; and Molière versus Methodism, won the cause.