Hawker. "This ain't my usual way o' gittin' a livin', lidy; but, owin' to the war, I——"
Housekeeper. "That's all nonsense! Why, to my knowledge you have been about for the past ten years."
Hawker. "You'll pardon me, lidy, but I'm referrin' to the Souf Afrikin War."
EPITHETS FOR ACTORS.
The dramatic critic of The Daily Chronicle, speaking of the first performance of Mameena, observes, "Mr. Oscar Asche, jutting, preponderant and softly corrugated, was a splendid Zulu chief."
Following this distinguished example, we have endeavoured to express the histrionic inwardness of some of our leading actors and actresses on similar lines:—
Sir George Alexander, dolicocephalic, fimbriated and supra-lapsarian, interpreted the rôle of the archdeacon with consummate skill.