SCENE--_Crossing in Rotten Row during the height of the Season. Two Policemen stopping Riders. Little Girl, wheeling p'ram., with Baby inside, about to cross._ _Mary Hanne._ "LOR', IT'S JUS' AS IF WE WOS THE QUEEN!"] * * * * * AIRS RESUMPTIVE. I.--THE GARDEN OF SLOTH. [Illustration: A]t the Court of the Earl, by the meeting of ways, Man planted a garden, a garden that pays; In the thick of the crowd, where they tread on your corn, It is there that a singular plant has been born. Hot days of desire and cool nights of disgust, They are mine when its bud keeps refusing to bust. O, Wheel of my weal! I am waiting forlorn, I am waiting, I say, with a crush on my corn. In the "Garden of London" where night-lights are spread, I watch Living Pictures, as old as the dead; While a Tow-er Gigantic stands gruesome and glum, By the shadow of Shows that are certain to come. Will _they_ shoot as _I_ shoot on sixpenny slides? Will _they_ want as _I_ want rotatory rides? O, plant of a plant! I would barter my skin For the chance of Ixion his regular spin! * * * * * By Our Schoolboy. _Q._ ([Greek: a]) Explain the allusion "Quorum Pars." ([Greek: b]) Give reference. _R._ "Quorum" is a bench of magistrates who must be all Fathers of Families, or Pa's. Hence the expression (which is a kind of Latin pun) "Quorum Pars." ([Greek: b]) The references are numerous, and all highly respectable. * * * * * FOR ARMS OR ALMS? An advertisement appears in a recent number of the _Athenæum_, headed "Devon Volunteer Commemoration," in which "Drawings are invited for a memorial of the fact that the Volunteer Movement of 1852 originated in Devonshire." According to the regulations, "Drawings must be accompanied by tenders for carrying out the work." Moreover, "the total cost, including all charges for designing, carrying out, superintending, and erecting the work, and surrounding the same with a suitable iron railing, must not exceed £200." Now this is really a very fair sum, and to assist one of our readers to win the prize, we allot the money in appropriate items. Of course we can only give a rough estimate, but it should be near enough to suit its purpose. COST OF THE DEVON VOLUNTEER COMMEMORATION MEMORIAL.