W stood for time's general Waste;

X for Ex-press that could never make haste;

Y for the Wherefore and Why of this wrong;

And Z for the Zanies who stand it so long!


Startling for Gourmets.—"Bisques disallowed." But it only refers to a new rule of the Lawn Tennis Association; so "Bisque d'écrevisses" will still be preserved to us among the embarras de richesse—(i.e. the trouble caused subsequently by the richness,—free trans.)—of a thoroughgoing French dinner.


THE NEW TUNE.