The War has worked other wonders. Not the least of these, a Stock Exchange friend points out, is that lots of Bulls and Bears are now comrades in arms. * * * "NEW PHASE IN RUSSIA. GERMANS CHANGING THEIR DISPOSITIONS." _Daily Mail._ We are glad to hear this, for they used to have simply beastly ones. * * * * * Illustration: _Orderly._ "YOUR MAJESTY, I HAVE BEEN SENT TO ASK FOR DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS DINNER TO BE HELD AT BUCKINGHAM PAL----" _Wilhelm_.----! ----!! * * * * * Another secret revealed by Mr. HAMILTON FYFE:-- "As usual when they take the initiative, the Russian troops swept the enemy before them. They first cleared out the trenches and then pursued the Germans."--_Daily Mail._ In the West we still cling to the old-fashioned method of first clearing out the Germans and then pursuing the trenches. * * * * * SOME LITERARY WAR-NOTES. MESSRS. HARRAP have just brought out _William the Silent_. This is not a biography of the KAISER. * * * * * Nor is _The Hound of Heaven_, a new edition of which is announced by Messrs. CHATTO AND WINDUS. * * * * * Mr. EDWARD CRESSY'S _Discoveries and Inventions of the Twentieth Century_ makes no mention, curiously enough, of the WOLFF Bureau. We look in vain, too, among the Yuletide publications for a book of Fairy Tales by WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN. This does not speak well for the alertness of our publishers. * * * * * Messrs. JACK, we see, have produced a _Life of Nelson_. It is now, we consider, up to Messrs. NELSON to produce a volume with some such title as _We All Love Jack_. * * * * * At last the Germans are reported to have scored a little success in the United States. An American coon is said to have been so much impressed by the achievements of the Germans that he has sent a song to the KAISER, the opening words of which are "My Hunny!" * * * * * The War is responsible for a splendid boom in the study of geography. An English lady who visited some of the Belgian wounded at a certain London hospital the other day asked one of them where he was hit, and on receiving the reply, "_Au pied_," is said to have spent hours trying to find the place on the map. * * * * * Which reminds us that, owing to the new names which the various belligerents are giving to towns which they have conquered (like Lemberg) or temporarily occupied (like Ostend), several map-makers are reported to be suffering from nervous breakdown. * * * * * The Kaiser's Thanks. "The Archbishop of York and Germany." _Heading in "Edinburgh Evening Despatch."_ Other pluralists, like the Bishop of SODOR AND MAN, are not at all jealous, nor are we at all surprised.