The Editor of Punch has reproved his Dramatic Critic for referring to It, in The Darling of the Gods, as "a precocious babe." He is assured that Mr. Burtie, who plays this neutral part, "has seen some five-and-twenty summers, and has advanced intellectual views about most things." Mr. Punch's Dramatic Critic has been instructed to "give him double bowing" by way of deferential compensation.
The Colonel. "Dash it, Sir, what do you mean by not having a light on your confounded hoop?"
BOWLES WITHOUT A BIAS.
[With the author's congratulations to "Cap'n" Tommy Bowles on the appearance of his new quarterly review, The Candid, whose declared aim is "to deal with Public Affairs faithfully and frankly ... and without Party bias." Among its contents are articles on "The New Corruption: The Caucus and the Sale of Honours," and "An Opposition Impotent.">[
I know a man of simple mind,
Gamaliel Nibbs by name,