National Reflection (suggested by recent Yacht-Race).—It is of small use Britannia being Britannia unless she be also Vigilant.
LYRE AND LANCET.
(A Story in Scenes.)
PART III.—THE TWO ANDROMEDAS.
Scene III.—Opposite a Railway Bookstall at a London Terminus. Time—Saturday, 4.25 P.M.
Drysdale (to his friend, Galfrid Undershell, whom he is "seeing off"). Twenty minutes to spare; time enough to lay in any quantity of light literature.
Undershell (in a head voice). I fear the merely ephemeral does not appeal to me. But I should like to make a little experiment. (To the Bookstall Clerk.) A—do you happen to have a copy left of Clarion Blair's Andromeda?
Clerk. Not in stock, Sir. Never 'eard of the book, but daresay I could get it for you. Here's a Detective Story we're sellin' like 'ot cakes—The Man with the Missing Toe—very cleverly written story, Sir.