The BARON DE BOOK-WORMS arrived in town yesterday afternoon and transacted business at his office in Bouverie Street, afterwards returning to his country seat at Stow-in-the-Wold.


BROWNING SOCIETY VERSES.

[Dr. FURNIVALL announces that the Browning Society is about to be dissolved.]

Hark! 'tis the knell of the Browning Society,

Wind-bags are bursting all round us to-day;

FURNIVALL fails, and for want of his diet he

Pines like a love-stricken maiden away.

Long has he fed upon cackle and platitude,