When the real Professor had been liberated and came to look over AMARYLLIS'S work, a slight difficulty arose. The law insisted that one who had answered with such perfect correctness must marry a peer, while STREPHON was but a humble commoner. However, a grateful nation rescued him from this dilemma by awarding him a dukedom. * * * * * A TRIO. [AIR--"_Three Blind Mice._"] Three new peers! Good ev'ry one! A. BORTHWICK, PLUNKET, H. DE WUMS, Are all conserva_tive_ly chums, We hail with cheers in our col-_lums_ The Three New Peers! * * * * * QUERY FROM A CORRESPONDENT.--Please, Sir, can you tell me where I can obtain a work entitled "_Balmy on the Crumpet_"? I have heard it frequently mentioned, but up to now have searched the lists at the British Museum and (with the exception of the works of one "_Balmez, a Theologian_,") all in vain. I presume the work in question is a treatise on some department of the baking industry. Is there also another work entitled _Balmy on the Muffin?_ In fact, I should very much like to collect all the treatises of this author on bakery.--Yours, OLD ROWLEY. * * * * * "OVER!"--At last "GRACE before wicket" has received his five thousand pounds' worth of shilling testimonials, and has returned thanks to the indefatigable Sir EDWARD LAWSON, who initiated and carried out the idea in the _Daily Telegraph_. Your health, Dr. GRACE, and song, which of course would be "_Sing O the Green Willow!_" And his motto, "_There's nothing like leather!_" Will the celebrated batsman give a ball to celebrate the occasion? * * * * * ROUNDABOUT READINGS. A strange report reaches me, a rumour which (if such a course may be predicated of a mere report) opens up illimitable vistas. The dramatic critics, it would appear, have been for some time past in a state of dissatisfaction. A newspaper proprietor has been turned into a peer; editors in profusion have journeyed down to Windsor as very plain misters, and, having been tapped upon the shoulder with cold steel, have returned to the bosoms of their families as knights; a novelist, a mere teller of stories, has undergone the same process, not, it is well understood, for his own glory, but for the greater honour of Literature (capital L please); and, worst of all, an actor has survived the blood-curdling ceremony of the _accolade_, and has received the congratulations and gifts of other members of his profession. * * *