Is it, sweet optimist, too much to ask

That you, and all our failures, muddles, messings,

Should, just to comfort us, throw off the mask,

And come as blessings?


We were glad to hear that the charges brought against the London Scottish rested upon the slightest possible foundation. There let them rest. They will not now change their title to the London Skittish.


DUMB CRAMBO AT WIMBLEDON.

Bar'll cool her An excellent Range-Finder.