_Second Mem._ So I have been told. If, as report has it, the visit is to say farewell, it will be a sad one. Take it all round, there is no better actor in the world than the hero of _Ici on parle Français_, and the embodiment of _Pau Claudian_. _First Mem._ I quite agree with you. Has any one been to see _India_ at Earl's Court? _Third Mem._ I have. About as fine a spectacle as they make them. The Empress Theatre, worthy of its name--the entertainment appropriate to its surroundings. Quite eclipses Olympia in its most prosperous days. And if you want to see how a few scraps of waste land can be converted into a region of gardens, museums, theatres, and palaces, just mount the Great Wheel, and look down upon the scene below you. [_Enter the_ Waiter, _when the chat about things theatrical is interrupted by orders for cooling and other drinks. Curtain._ * * * * * [Illustration: STILL IN THE HONEYMOON. _Angelina._ "AND YOU _WON'T_ FORGET TO BUY A TIN OF COCOATINA." [_Edwin ties a knot in his pocket-handkerchief._ _Angelina._ "AND YOU _WON'T_ FORGET TO CALL AND SEE DEAR MAMMA." [_Edwin ties another knot in his pocket-handkerchief._ _Angelina._ "AND OH, EDWIN DEAR, YOU WON'T, YOU _WON'T_ FORGET TO THINK SOMETIMES OF YOUR POOR LITTLE WIFE, LEFT ALL ALONE FOR THE DAY!" [_Edwin ties a THIRD knot in his pocket-handkerchief._ ] * * * * * IN MEMORIAM. HENRY RICHARD HOWARD. [Captain H. R. HOWARD, who was reputed to have been JOHN LEECH'S "only pupil," and who, in the Fifties and Sixties, contributed many pictorial drolleries (mostly signed with a trident) to _Mr. Punch's_ pages, died on Aug. 31 last, in his 81st year.] Friend of old days, when LEECH'S pencil charmed Each heart that grace allured and humour warmed, How fast the years have fled Since that irreparable loss! And how It stirs old memories to learn that now His pupil, too, lies dead! A lesser light, but linked with the great time, Three decades since, when in his glorious prime LEECH left us, in full fame. And _Punch_, who makes old friends his constant care, Upon his page of honour space must spare For humorous HOWARD'S name. * * * * * "OH! THE DAYS OF THE (SOUTH) KERRY DANCING."--The latest figure introduced into that diverting _danse excentrique_, the Hibernian Can-Can, is known as "the Irish 'split.'" * * * * * "THE PILLER OF THE HOUSE."--The family doctor. * * * * * THE BALLAD OF BECHUANA. _The answer Mr. Punch would like Mr. Chamberlain to be able to make to Khama._ ["KHAMA, the Bechuana Chief, will not consent to come under RHODES if the white man is to be free to 'convey' his subjects' land, and to poison them with strong drink."--_Daily Chronicle._] AIR--"_Oriana._"