_ECCE novi'st aliquid_ (_per FLINDERS PETRIE Magistrum_) _Ex Africâ semper!_ Quite like some arch-humourist rum, Playing with tombs and skulls, he unearths fresh funny surprises, Scandals of Athor's "past," or long-veiled secrets of Isis. Now this gravedigger-_Yorick_, this Egypt's new ABERCROMBY, Scores yet another conquest--he's found out JUVENAL'S Ombi, Found out the next-door neighbours of Nile-washed Tentyra (you will See in the Fifteenth Satire their truceless, truculent duel). Thus they lived some ages B.C. (in the thirtieth cent'ry), Cannibals, six feet high, and long-legged Libyan gentry, Buried _à la_ trussed fowl, with heads on which wavy brown hair rose; These were the folk who once made things pretty hot for the PHARAOHS. Dig then, PETRIE, away 'mid potsherds, mummies, and cinders, Delve on, and add fresh towns to the underground kingdom of FLINDERS! * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. Hearty congratulations from the Baron and his assistants to Mr. H. W. LUCY on his delightful life of Mr. GLADSTONE (W. H. ALLEN & Co). No one certainly has had better opportunities than TOBY, M.P., for studying the great statesman in all his varying moods; and it may be affirmed with equal certainty that no other man (or dog) could have used his opportunities to greater advantage for the benefit of the public. There are in this little volume a tone of easy yet scholarly courtesy, a fine literary touch, and a marvellous power of condensing details into one vividly descriptive sentence. It is an admirable piece of work, which, seeing that it only costs a shilling, ought to be sure of a popularity fully equal to its high merits. "Bravo TOBY!" says [Illustration: THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS.] * * * * * CHANGE OF DESCRIPTIVE TITLE.--In the Egyptian explorations, the results of which, so far, have been recently given in Professor PETRIE'S lecture, reported in the _Times_ of Thursday, April 18, the lecturer tells us how he was accompanied in his researches by Mr. GRENFELL, "The Craven Fellow." How doubly plucky of Professor PETRIE to proceed with such a companion so extraordinarily timorous as is expressed in such a _sobriquet_ as "The Craven Fellow." However, he belied his name by showing such pluck and perseverance in rendering assistance to the Professor as will entitle him to explain himself as "_Late_ the Craven Fellow," but _now_ "the C. F., or Courageous Fellow." * * * * * [Illustration: THE JAP IN THE CHINA SHOP. _Master of the Situation_ (_loq._). "NOW THEN, YOU PIG-HEADED OLD PIGTAIL, OPEN YOUR SHOP--AND HAND ME THE KEYS!"] * * * * * [Illustration: SCORCHING. _First Countryman_ (_to third-rate Amateur Jock, whose mount won't have the Fence_). "NOW THEN, SHOVE 'IM AT IT AGIN, MISTER! WHOI DENGED IF OI WOULDN'T JUMP THAT 'ERE LITTLE PLACE WI' A JACKASS!"