To look like wax and sawdust, with limbs of cotton-wool.

And thus, when next you draw them (oh, may the time be long)

To make them human beings will surely not be wrong.

And if you'll take a hint from me you'll earn a nation's thanks,

By drawing these prize princely ones a little less like blanks.


Lines in Pleasant Places.—Sala's Journal, full of interesting and entertaining matter, has lately been giving very sensible advice as to Palmistry, which is again in vogue. The Palmists appear to be doing so uncommonly well just now, that this year will be memorable, for them at least, as "the Palmy days" of chiromancy.