"IL Y EN A TOUJOURS UN QUI AIME—ET L'AUTRE QUI TEND LA JOUE."
He. "Ah! you'd think a Precious lot more of me, Matilda, if I was only Six Feet high!"
She. "Yes, Dearest! But then you wouldn't think such a Precious Lot of Me!"
An Orleans Plum.—Prince Henri d'Orléans (says the Times) has just been rebuking the British people for the Chauvinism of their Oriental policy. Like the late M. Massie, whose shade he invokes, the young Prince seems to object to us, not because we commit any specific acts of hostility, but "because we look on in a most aggravating fashion." This is truly funny! One country may steal a—Tonkin, but another may not look over a boundary! Prince Henry presents a peculiarly close parallel to Keene's infuriated (and incoherent) Paterfamilias, who angrily commanded his silent son "not to look at him in that tone of voice!"
Opera and Disestablishment.—La Damnation de Faust was produced most successfully at the Theatre at Monte Carlo. According to some stern moralists, who regard the Principality as a gambling-hell upon earth, this particular Opera was in a quite congenial atmosphere. Odd that in the two Principalities, Monte Carlo and Wales, the objects for Disestablishment should be so diametrically opposite. In Wales it is the particular Church, and at Monte Carlo it is the not-at-all-particular t'other word, unmentionable twice in the same paragraph to ears polite.
New Reading.—(By a Musical Lady Latinist.)—"Amor et melle et Kellie est fecundissimus."