In "DICK GRAIN" all have lost a "fellow of infinite jest" and a friendly critic who scourged our pleasant vices with such genial criticism that everyone, hearing him, charitably applied the moral to his, or her, neighbour. With Mrs. GERMAN REED, the Miss PRISCILLA HORTON of the stage, and her son "TAFF REED," the old Gallery of Illustration Company comes to an end. CORNEY GRAIN successfully succeeded JOHN PARRY. "C. G." _Ci gît._ * * * * * TO ISISTA. (_A Topical Explanation._) Your dark blue eyes are doubtless very sweet, And I could hear without the least surprise That connoisseurs declare it hard to beat Your dark blue eyes. How is it if so much of magic lies In your two "orbs" I deem them incomplete? Why with disdain--I'm going to poetise-- Do I your "heavenly windows" ever treat? The explanation Saturday supplies. I'm Cambridge. That's why I'm so loth to meet Your dark blue eyes. _Note._--"Dark blue." In view of the coming Boat Race this may be taken as a prophecy, or tip. * * * * * APPLIED SCIENCE. SIR,--The following may be of service to your non-mathematical readers:-- _Q._ "The hands of a clock are between 2 and 3; and in ten minutes' time the minute hand will be as much in front of the hour hand as it is now behind it. What is the time?" _A._ "Ask Policeman X." The crass mediævalism of the Oxbridge don, I regret to say, failed to see this solution, and I am again coaching with old DRUMMER.--Yours theoretically and problematically, PRACTICAL Y. Z. * * * * * CHANGE OF NAME.--In consequence of recent events crowded into one place, the name of Throgmorton Street shall be changed into Throngmorton Street. * * * * * [Illustration: UNKIND. _Our Minor Poet._ "I BELIEVE I SHOULD ENJOY MY HOLIDAYS MUCH MORE IF I WENT _INCOGNITO_." _Friend._ "TRAVEL UNDER YOUR _NOM DE PLUME_, OLD MAN!"] * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. EXTRACTED FROM THE DIARY OF TOBY, M.P.