During a recent trial, Mr. EDWARD SOLOMON, the plaintiff testified that his work was worth to him about thirty-nine pounds per diem. "Why," exclaimed Mr. Justice LAWRANCE, "if you write a good many (what?) it is better than----" Whereupon interposed Mr. PAUL TAYLOR, Counsel for the plaintiff, "Better than the Bar, my lord." (_Laughter._) Why, of course, Mr. PAUL TAYLOR! Was there no one in Court with knowledge of the simplest arithmetic sufficient to inform you that to work at _several bars_ must be worth much more than to work at _one Bar_? Hasn't Sir ARTHUR SULLIVAN, by composing the lightest possible operas in the world, achieved that best of all "possible probable" tunes, a for-tune, that even a judge, whether of music or at law, might envy? Why, certainly. And the GILLIVAN-SULBERT Savoyards could, if they liked, tell Judge LAWRANCE that "thirty-nine pounds per diem" is not an over-estimate of the share apportioned to each of the three leading scions of the House of the Savoy, composer, librettist, and manager, during the run of one of their real successes, such, for example, as was _The Mikado_. 'Tis a pity Composer SOLOMON did not call Composer SULLIVAN to testify to what might be the pecuniary value of a successful composition. We wish the deserving TAYLOR better luck with the next suit he takes in hand. * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. Good supply of all sorts of game at Christmas, and especially from the preserves of Messrs. DE LA RUE. Try "Animal Snap" and see how you like it. Thanks to DEAN AND SON--_i.e._, Senior DEAN and Junior DEAN--for their _Golden Hours_, _The Prize_, _Peeps into Paradise_, and _The Venetian Blind Moveable Picture Book_, the last being the best of all. And DEAN'S Cracker Toy-books will certainly go _off_ well. _As we Sweep through the Deep._ "Quite the light publishers for tales of the sea are 'NELSON AND SONS,'" quoth the Baron, "and no doubt they hope that every man will do his duty at Christmas time and go in for Nelsonian boys and girls books." "_As we Sweep_" is by that true Horse Marine (if there is anything in a name), yclept Dr. GORDON STABLES, R.N. [Illustration] The Baroness recommends _The Rosebud Annual_. A lovely posy of pictures and tales to be found on the shelf of JAMES CLARKE & CO., Publishers, and, the Baroness supposes, Nursery Gardeners. "Natural this," quoth a Baronite, "here is a _Miss Parson's Adventures_ told by a Clark RUSSELL!" If you want it send to CHAPMAN AND HALL. And all the Baronites say many thanks to MACMILLAN & CO. for a delightful new edition of Miss MARY MITFORD RUSSELL'S _Our Village_. Our compliments to Mrs. LOVETT CAMERON on _A Tragic Blunder_. A blow given by mistake to the wrong person nearly ruins the entire happiness of several people, but it all comes right at the end of two vols. from Mrs. CAMERON'S pen. It is a nice light entertainment with which to while away an hour or two.