RATHER A HANDFUL!
There seems to be a feeling among lady writers that they also should have been remembered in the Birthday-honour distribution. That is all very well, but quite a new demand has been started by the Cork Constitution, which remarks,—
"It would not of course be regular to bestow a knighthood upon a lady; but the rule in the case of Mrs. Disraeli might be observed, and a Baroness be conferred upon the author of Lady Audley's Secret."
What would Miss Braddon do with a Baroness when she got her? Work her up into her next plot? Peeresses must be "cheap to-day," if they can be given away in this generous style.