OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
"For a modest dish of camp-pie, suited to barracks and youth militant, commend me," quoth one of the Baron's Baronites, "to Only a Drummer-Boy, a maiden effort, and unpretentious, like its author, who calls himself Arthur Amyand, but is really Captain Arthur Drummer Haggard. He has the rare advantage, missed by most people who write soldier novels, of knowing what he is talking about. If there are faults 'to pardon in the drawing's lines,' they are faults of technique and not of anatomy." "The Court is with you," quoth the Baron de B.-W.
Hotel Note.—The chef at every Gordon Hotel ought to be a "Gordon Bleu."
THE VOLUNTEER'S VADE MECUM.
(Bisley Edition.)
Question. What is the ambition of every rifleman?
Answer. To become an expert marksman.
Q. How is this to be done?