A Visit to the War-Work.

HEN Peter Parley was a boy there used to be periodical visits of wax-work people to the town in which he resided, who brought wax heads and hands in boxes, which were placed on the proper posts of "dummies stuffed with straw," and arranged in various attitudes, "offensive and defensive," "active, passive, and neuter;" in the imperative or the indicative or potential moods, and in the masculine and feminine gender. There was one noun substantive I very well remember, the renowned Daniel Lambert, the fat man of Leicester, who weighed fifty stone; and a wax-work figure of O'Brien, the Irish giant, whose skeleton now stands in the museum of the College of Physicians. There were also Mrs. Siddons and Tim Bobbin, the laughing philosopher; besides which, were Mother Shipton, the