"The student of Church history will do well to take Dr. Bertrand's Life." * * * * * [Illustration: _First Sportsman (on the way home after dinner)._ "HI! LOOK OUT WHERE YOU'RE GOING!" _Second Sportsman._ "LOOK OUT YOURSELF! YOU'RE DRIVING, AREN'T YOU?" _First Sportsman._ "NO, I THOUGHT YOU WERE."] * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. (_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._) I doubt if Messrs. ASQUITH, CHURCHILL, EDMOND, LLOYD GEORGE, or even Colonel SEELY have leisure these days for novel-reading, and, if they have, they might be reluctant to devote it to _The Ulsterman_ (HUTCHINSON). It does not treat of their favourite subject and, so far from offering any solution of extant difficulties, adds yet another complication to the Home Rule question. Everything from revenue to religion having been discussed, no one but Mr. F. FRANKFORT MOORE has thought to deal with the love interest. What is to be done, the tale suggests, for the young lovers in the North whose families are loyal to different sovereigns? _Ned_ was the son of a stalwart, if somewhat snobbish, adherent of His Majesty KING GEORGE THE FIFTH; _Kate_ was the daughter of a would-be subject of the Divine DEVLIN, and things could never have gone well with them had it not been for the intervention of _Ned's_ uncle, who had been so long out of Ireland that he had ceased to cherish any keen feelings in the dispute, and had been so used by his brother in the past that he was only too glad of the opportunity of spiting him by getting his son married to a Papist. But there are other cases, where no such facilities are at hand, and, if Mr. MOORE'S picture is a true one, it must go hard with such couples. What is to be done for them? Are they to be told to wait six years and see? I hope not, for whatever they might see in the period could have no interest for them? This matrimonial difficulty is one, at any rate, which, as all must agree, even that reputed panacea, the General Election, cannot be expected to cure. * * * * *