(Suggested by this eminent "Sporting and Dramatic" Artist's "Portia" now being exhibited on all the bookstalls.)
LADY MACBETH.
"Or Anybody Else. Doesn't matter. Quite a——J. E. M."
SHYLOCK; or, The Masher of Venice.
"Companion Picture to my 'Portia.' A very brilliant——J. E. M."
THE WOES OF THE WATER CONSUMER.
Dear Mr. Punch,—What Greek philosopher was it who held that Water was the beginning and essence of all things? Our modern Sanitarians appear to agree with him. At any rate, if they do not look upon water as the great essence, they declare it to be the prime essential, and present fearsome pictures of the results of any deficiency in its plentifulness and purity.