Above all he is firmly resolved to preserve in his dancing the sympathetic and humanistic tone of his presentation of life in his books. It will be a message of hope. He is determined by his gestural artistry and resilient thistle-downiness to "sanction and fortify the natural human passion for believing that life can somehow, behind all the miseries and the mysteries, mean something profoundly worth while." To render justice to his mental and physical agility is beyond our powers. We have been driven to culling this memorable sentence from the latest and most preternaturally precious of his American admirers. It is only fair to say that as a dancing fictionist Mr. BENNETT will not be allowed to have it entirely his own way. Rumours are already afloat of the appearance on the boards of Messrs. CHESTERTON and BELLOC, under the impressive aliases of Campoborgo and Bellocchio, "the Terrible Tarantulators." This may be only a wild surmise. There is however strong _a priori_ evidence in support of the statements that Mr. MASEFIELD is taking lessons in the Fox Trot at Boar's Hill, and that Lord Northsquith is bringing back with him from Morocco a powerful troupe of Dancing Dervishes, with the intention of installing them ultimately in Downing Street. * * * * * OUR LITERARY LEGISLATORS. "AN IMPERIAL POLICY. (By Mr. ALFRED BIGLAND, M.P.) May I commence my argument by a well-known quotation from Shakespeare, 'He knows not England who only England knows'?"--_Liverpool Paper_. * * * * * "SITUATIONS OPEN. (COLONIAL, INDIAN AND FOREIGN.) IRELAND.--Invoice Clerk required by leading firm of Wholesale Druggists in Ireland."--_Trade Paper._ Dominion Home Rule casts its shadow before. * * * * * "The decree of the Archbishop of Canterbury for the creation of a separate Providence of Wales was read."--_Scotch Paper._ What's wrong with Mr. LLOYD GEORGE? * * * * * [Illustration: RESTORING THE BALANCE. VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: "IT'S A TRICK!" PERFORMER: "OF COURSE IT'S A TRICK! THE POINT IS THAT IT HASN'T BEEN DONE FOR YEARS AND YEARS--AND I'LL TROUBLE YOU TO APPLAUD IT."] * * * * * ESSENCE OF PARLIAMENT. _Monday, April 12th._--Neither Ministers nor ordinary Members showed any marked eagerness to resume their Parliamentary labours. Little green oases were to be seen in every part of the House, and on the Treasury Bench even Under-Secretaries (who often have to maintain a precarious perch on one another's knees) had room to spread themselves.