She has once or twice, in a delightfully mischievous spirit, amused herself by flouting those very social ordinances of which she is an acknowledged high priestess. When wars, strikes, and Governments are forgotten, it will still be remembered how, some years ago when she was a few months younger than she is now, she appeared in her box at the opera on a MELBA (_and therefore a tiara_) night wearing a necklace of spar beads and a large ribbon bow on her head. An electric shock ran through the house; opera and singers were unheeded; and the beautiful Countess of ---- tore the family diamonds from her head and neck, and, with a shriek of despair, flung them into the orchestra. The subject of our article could have shone in any or all of the arts, had she cared to give her time and talents to them. Let it be said, too, that, though surrounded from her infancy with "all this world and all the glory of it," she has a serious side to her character, countenances the Church, and by no means discourages religion. It is widely known that she keeps a diary. Ah! if only that diary, in its dainty, morocco, gold-clasped volumes, could be abstracted from the wonderful mother-o'-pearl escritoire, carried out of the exquisite Renaissance boudoir, down the noble staircase and out of the massive hall-door, and, after the spelling, grammar and composition had been slightly overhauled, if it could but be published and given to the eager world, what an intellectual feast it would provide! And to the fair, gifted, high-born diarist what a fortune it would bring, and what a number of simply _absorbing_ libel cases! _GUESS WHO IT IS._ * * * * * _The Daily Mail_ must be more careful with its posters. Here are two recent examples:-- L2 A WEEK FOR LIFE. DRAMATIC END TO SACK CRIME TRIAL. L2 A WEEK FOR LIFE. COOLEST FRAUD ON RECORD. * * * * * "Lady Dorothy Wood, sister of the Earl of Onslow and wife of the Hon. E. F. Wood, M.P., son and heir of Viscount Halifax, was the recipient of birthday congratulations yesterday, when the Earl of Erroll, of Slain's Castle, Aberdeenshire, completed his 62nd year."--_Observer._ The Earl of ERROLL'S turn for congratulations will come when Lady DOROTHY has a birthday. * * * * * MR. PUNCH'S PANTOMIME ANALYSIS. Now that the Pantomime season is drawing to a close and the intelligent student of this branch of Drama is tempted to pass it in review, it may be useful to him to have a list of possible Pantomimes drawn up in a tabulated form according to genus and species, that their finer distinctions, so easily overlooked, may be the better apprehended. _Mr. Punch_ has no hesitation in placing his nice erudition at the disposal of his readers.