_Shooting._--Suit of ditto's of gold tissue. Shoulder-guard of diamonds. Deer-stalker of birds of Paradise breast-feathers. Boots of young crocodile leather, embroidered with lapis lazuli. _Private Dinners._--Gold coat and trousers. Silver shirt and waistcoat. Diamond opera hat and overcoat of various precious stones. Handkerchief of woven brilliants. Necktie of antediluvian aluminium at £520 10_s._ 4_d._ a grain. * * * * * TARTARIN SUR LA TAMISE. M. ALPHONSE DAUDET has gone back to his own country. He is pleased with us on the whole. We have learnt his language and read his books. We are not so clever or intelligent as the French; but we are more stable of purpose and despise ridicule, and keep ourselves well informed about other countries. _L'enfant dit vrai, peut-être!_ Our women, however, are inferior to French women, as they lack either beauty or taste: and the less said about their looks and dress the better. _Toujours galant, "le petit Chose!" Pécaïré!_ TARTARIN has surpassed himself; and if he manages to persuade his fair compatriots that he is sincere in this, _il aura bien mérité de la patrie_; and will recover all his old popularity. Nothing will remain for him but to prove that we lost the Battle of Waterloo, and that the Lord Mayor is a more important person than Queen VICTORIA. After that, "_Aux grands hommes de la France, la Patrie reconnaissante_." * * * _The Latest Edition of "The Chronicles of Holinshed,"_ written by JOHN "of that ilk." Honest JOHN is outspoken. His motto is the truth and nothing but the truth--as far as he can recollect it. His memory appears to be good. JOHN is Frank. * * * DRAMATIC TEMPORARY PROVERB (_adapted for Garrick Theatre_).--"When the HARE is away the WILLARD will play." * * * * * [Illustration: INSULARITY. "BY THE WAY, RADDLES, A RUSSIAN PRINCE IS COMING TO DINE WITH US NEXT WEEK!" "AH, THEN, SIR, I SUPPOSE HE AIN'T O' MUCH ACCOUNT IN HIS OWN COUNTRY?"] * * * * * REGRETS. "_To wish is folly, to regret absurd._" That I went out in my new hat and light summer clothes, and did not take my umbrella the only day within the last fortnight when there was an hour's rain. That I had already accepted an invitation when one to a party that would have been infinitely more pleasant all round subsequently arrived. That I took that champagne last night, and some other things. That I left off my winter "things" before summer had set in. That I returned to my winter "things" just when summer weather did set in. That I went out to supper and supped heartily. That I didn't have that tooth out when it first pained me. That my dentist should take a four days' holiday just when I wanted him badly. That I put into five sweeps and drew blank.