To the Editor of the Once a-Month Review.
Dear Sir,—With reference to my article "Is Horse-racing Justifiable?" I desire to make known that while I still strongly adhere to my views therein expressed as to the wickedness of the turf, I shall, for the reason I am about to mention, take no further active part in the controversy. I find that the Prime Minister is the owner of some racehorses (a fact previously unknown to me), and as I am his "dextera," if it is not presumptive to say so, it would clearly be unbecoming on my part to take up any antagonistic position. However much I may regret having to take this course, I am sure you will agree with me that it is the only one which is open to me.
Yours faithfully, W-ll-am V-rn-n H-rc-urt.
Dear Mr. Punch,—Last Sunday evening I fully intended going to church. I put on my most attractive bonnet, and an absolutely bewitching jacket, when I discovered that Jim (he's my husband, you know) did not intend to go out. As I had read a little while before the new archidiaconal theory of obedience, that of course prevented my going out. Clearly as I am Jim's "better-half" I couldn't go anywhere that he didn't go. Please, Mr. Punch, was I right? Or can it be that the archdeacon was wrong?
Yours very perplexed, Ethel Dinmere.
A PHALSE NOTE ON GEORGE THE FOURTH.
(A Brown Study in a Yellow Book.)
By Mortarthurio Whiskersley.