On reading a "Smart" Novel.

Heavy moralities, à la Sarah Grand, Are tedious oft, and trivial to boot; But some who write of Vice with a "a light hand," Merit the impact of a heavy foot.


A SEPARATE IRISH CHAMBER!

(After a rough Sketch by the Right Hon. J. Ch-mb-rl-n!)

["Since the defeat of the Home Rule Bill they (the Irish Party) have all been engaged in blackening each other's characters, and painting each other's portraits; and I venture to say that the result of that is not a gallery of pictures, but a Chamber of Horrors.">[