* * * * * "Three swift fierce rounds between Beckett and Wells and the 18,000 spectators at Olympia last night witnessed the close of yet another great ring drama."--_Daily Chronicle._ "Beckett ... bowed more by instinct than of set purpose to the shouting, over-wrought people who from the floor of Olympia shot up to the ceiling."--_Daily Telegraph._ We had no idea until we read these paragraphs that the spectators took such an active part in the proceedings. * * * * * [Illustration: _House-hunter (after another fruitless day)._ "WHAT ABOUT TAKING THIS? WE COULD AT LEAST HANG OUR PICTURES."] * * * * * THE FAIRY BALL. "I am asked to the ball to-night, to-night; What shall I wear, for I must look right?" "Search in the fields for a lady's-smock; Where could you find you a prettier frock?" "I am asked to the ball to-night, to-night; What shall I do for my jewels bright?" "Trouble you not for a brooch or a ring, A daisy-chain is the properest thing." "I am asked to the ball to night, to-night; What shall I do if I shake with fright?" "When you are there you will understand That no one is frightened in Fairyland." R. F. * * * * * "WIT AND HUMOUR. Ashton and District Undertakers' Association have advanced the prices of hearse and carriages for funerals."--_Yorkshire Paper._ If this is the kind of humour that appeals to our contemporary it should alter the heading to "Grave and Gay." * * * * * [Illustration: THE LUXURIES OF THE RICH. _Club Member (owner of thirty thousand acre estate)._ "I TELL YOU WHAT IT IS--I MUST REALLY GET MY HAIR CUT. DASH IT, I'VE GOT THE MONEY."] * * * * * COMMUNISM AT CAMBRIDGE. [Bolshevism and Communism claim many adherents among the young intellectuals at our ancient Universities.--_Vide Press._] I am a Socialist, a Syndicalist, an Anarchist, a Bolshevist--whatever you like to call me; if you wish to be precise, an International Communist. Anyhow, as such I am opposed tooth-and-nail to the iniquity of the existing Competitive System. It is my intention to devote my life to its eradication, in whatever form it may be disguised, and to inaugurate an era of loving-kindness, peace, leisure and plenty, similar to that now enjoyed by the people of Russia. But my duties do not lie only in the distant future; they are here, in the present, facing me in the University. For never, I think, was the unclean thing, Competition, so prevalent and unabashed as at Cambridge to-day.