THE RECENTLY-ELECTED R.A.'S.

The pictures these talented gentlemen show

Monotonous never appear;

Waves, woods, and (say) Wenice, MacWhirter & Co.

Depict for us year after year.

Woods always paints Venice, the place that brought forth

A Moor, but Moore's chattels and goods

Are seas, not calm south ones, but those of the north,

Whilst North and MacWhirter paint woods.

A Debt of Honour.—Will the verse described as Ode by Mr. William Morris be paid with the Poet Laureateship?

She. "I don't see my Cheque anywhere!"

He. "A—can I help you? What Name?"

She. "Oh—well—mine is hardly a Cheque. A—it's a Postal Order, you know, for Fifteen Shillings!"