"Araminta," I cried, "I give it up. She has no bent for literature. There can never have been any great authoress, young or old, who started with such a materialistic mind."

"You forget Mrs. Beeton," she replied.

Evoe.


THE EXPERTS.

Asquith. "GIVE HIM HIS HEAD!"

Grey. "TELL HIM YOU'LL CUT THE STRING IN A COUPLE OF YEARS!"

Morley. "WHAT YOU WANT IS A MORE POWERFUL SANITY!"