For the Country may go—like myself—to the dogs!


Legal Promotion (Comment by an Indignant Radical).—Lord Justice Bowen made a Lord of Appeal, vice Lord Hannen, resigned. Very natural—there's no "Justice" in the House of Lords!


Love and Time; or, The Three Stages of Passion.

["The question whether gifts bestowed during an engagement should be returned when it is broken off has always been a debated one."—James Payn.]

Debated? Sentiment must surely weep!

If passion, hot at first, should cool at last,

How should a loveless Future stoop to keep

The Present of the Past?