"Makes it a fruitful Victory!"
A great many young ladies have a literary taste just now, and during this warm weather are rushing into print.
LYRE AND LANCET.
(A Story in Scenes.)
PART I.—SHADOWS CAST BEFORE.
Scene I.—Sir Rupert Culverin's Study at Wyvern Court. It is a rainy Saturday morning in February. Sir Rupert is at his writing-table, as Lady Culverin enters with a deprecatory air.
Lady Culverin. So here you are, Rupert! Not very busy, are you? I won't keep you a moment. (She goes to a window.) Such a nuisance it's turning out so wet with all these people in the house, isn't it?