J. SANSOM.

_Aristophanes on the Modern Stage_ (Vol. iii., p. 105.)--Moliere has

availed himself in the comedy of the _Bourgeois Gentilhomme_ very liberally

of the comedy of the _Clouds_. The lesson in grammar given to Monsr.

Jourdain is nearly the same as that which Socrates gives to Strepsiades.