Britannia. Bravo, my ruddy-bearded, brave old Triton!
Nep shouts approval from his deep-sea grotto.
Friends need not fear for me, foes shall not frighten,
While you, and all my sons, stick to that motto!


A Parliamentary Paradox.—Sir Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett (alias "Silomio") begs the Government to suppress the Boers.


Convalescent.—After "a bout" of influenza, the best thing for the patient is to be "about again."


A FIN-DE-SIÈCLISM!

LENT.

Sunday Visitor. "Is Mrs. Brown at Home?"