Perhaps I shall never reach Geneva. Paris will do well enough. No streets there taken up in the Spring. No painting on the clean stone houses. No rebuilding on the Boulevards. No aunt of mine anywhere near. I shall escape all my troubles. I shall be able to smoke my cigarette lazily in the pleasant courtyard of the Grand Hôtel, and try to imagine that I see some of the people in _Trilby_--_Little Billee_, or _Taffy_, or the _Laird_--amongst the animated, cosmopolitan crowd. And the stately giant in the gilt chain will solemnly arrange the newspapers in all languages, and will supply me with note-paper. I must be careful not to write to my aunt a long description of the Jardin Alpin d'Acclimatation de Geneve on paper stamped "Grand Hôtel, Paris." And the attentive JOSEPH, with those long grey whiskers, sacred to the elderly French waiter and the elderly French lawyer, will exclaim, "_V'là, M'sieu!_" in all those varied tones which make the two syllables mean "Yessir!" "Coming, Sir!" "Here is your coffee, Sir!" "In a minute, Sir!" and so many things besides. And I shall be able to watch, assembled from all parts of the world, some younger and prettier faces than my Aunt JANE'S. That settles it. A regretful letter to my aunt. And to-morrow _en route!_ * * * * * CHANGE OF SPELLING?--Our dramatic friend known to the public through _Mr. Punch_ as ENRY HAUTHOR JONES appears to have recently altered the spelling of his name. He has left the JONES and the HENRY alone, but in the _Times_ of Friday he appears as "HENRY ARTH_E_R JONES," "U" out of it; and what was "E" doing there? * * * * * PRESENTATION TO THE REV. GUINNESS ROGERS.--Last week this worthy minister was presented by his Congregationalists with an address and a cheque for a thousand guineas, Mr. GLADSTONE, ex-minister, being among the subscribers. In future the _bénéficiaire_ will be remembered as the "Reverend Thousand GUINNESS ROGERS." * * * * * MUSIC NOTE (_after hearing Mr. J. M. Coward's performance on the Orchestral Harmonium_).--It would be high praise to say of any organist that "he attacks his instrument in a Cowardly manner." * * * * * "VERY APPROPRIATE."--Last Wednesday the Right Hon. A. W. _PEEL_ became a "_Skinner_." * * * * * A COMING CHARGE. (_Prematurely Communicated by our Prophetic Reporter._)