Because remembrance of his home is dear,

He toasts it deeply." All my wrath was dead.

Then the man smiled at me and wagged his head;

"Junction for Little Barleythorpe," he said;

"A week ago these points upset my beer."

Evoe.


AN UNPLAYED MASTERPIECE.

[The growing popularity of the one-Act play has prompted the aphorism that what is required in this class of drama is a "maximum of action with a minimum of explanation." Nevertheless the following effort has been rejected by every Manager in London—a fact which decisively answers the oft-repeated question, "Do Managers read plays?">[