"Besides," said the initial speaker, "the British Public does not care for paying for its raree-show. When we _do_ get hold of a native, we like to find him on view free, gratis and for nothing." Then it was agreed that NASRULLA should appear at the Queen's Birthday Parade, and other "features" were discussed with animation. "But what the KHAN will ultimately do, Sir," murmured an experienced official at the conclusion of the confab, "only Time can show--with the assistance of the Government." * * * * * A NEW TERROR.--Politics on the stage. In ENRY HAUTHOR JONES'S _Bauble Shop_ at the Criterion we were taken into the House of Commons and got somehow mixed up with Party Politics; but in _The Home Secretary_, Mr. CARTON, it appears, has attempted to drag his audience, with Mr. CHARLES WYNDHAM, into the inner circle of Parliamentary life. What next? A debate on the Budget in Four Acts? Or shall we have, in five Parliamentary Acts, with a Prologue and Epilogue, the Comedy with a short Jonesian title called _Home Rule for Ireland: or, how the O'Reillys, the Maguires, and the Kellys went into the Opposition Lobby, and how one Government came in and the other went out, &c. &c.?_ Save us from politics on the stage! There was just enough of the political element in _Dora_ to give it a peculiar interest. But then _Dora_ was written by VICTORIEN SARDOU. * * * * * ROYAL MILITARY TOURNAMENT.--The initials being "R. M. T." will _not_ be descriptive of the state of the seats in the Agricultural Hall during the performance. The announcement will be "Are Quite Full," not "R. _M. T._" * * * * * QUOTATION FOR LONDONER LAST WEEK, ON SEEING THE DUKE OF YORK IN PALL MALL.--"I know that man, he comes from Sheffield." * * * * * THE NEW COINS.--It was announced that the reverse was to have been altered. On the contrary, it is quite the reverse. * * * * * [Illustration: CLASSIC QUOTATIONS ILLUSTRATED. (_For the Use of Schools._) EXAMPLE II.--"PALMAM QUI MERUIT FERAT."] * * * * * THE POET AND HIS INTERVIEWERS. I do not dwell in a back-attic with the windows pasted up with brown paper, neither do I wallow up to my eyes in a litter of manuscript with flue on the carpet and dust on all the furniture. If ye, or the Public, have any such impression, ye are very much mistaken. I may be a literary person and a prose-poet; but I live quite respectably, and have everything handsome about me. Come and see! Ye will find the doorsteps freshly scoured, and the door-handle brightly polished--which ye will make a note of after ye have rung the bell. A trim parlourmaid--whom ye will allude to as "a neat-handed PHYLLIS"--will open the door, and request ye to wipe your dirty boots upon the doormat in the passage--which ye are expected to mention as the "spacious entrance hall."