_Second Ditto (roused at last)._ I don't know what you call being insular and isolated. French Plays are on at a London Theatre. An Italian Exhibition's coming to Earl's Court. We get our music from Germany, our singers from Italy, and our butter and eggs from Belgium and Brittany; and, on the whole, don't you think London's about the most Cosmopolitan Capital to be found anywhere? Ah, here's my Station. Good morning! [_Jumps out in time to escape indignant retort. Exit._ * * * * * MAGAZINES IN BULK.--It is as impossible to "sample" a magazine by a monthly number as it is to estimate the quality of a wine by the glass. If you take a bottle you know something about it. Thus when we see the _English Illustrated_ in volume we are fully able to estimate its worth. The present volume is in every way equal to its predecessors. Volume Fourteen of _St. Nicholas_ is one of those good gifts that Brother JONATHAN sends us. It is a delightful collection of child-poems, child-pictures, and child-lore. The editor, Miss MARY MAPES DODGE knows full well how difficult it is to please those keen critics, the children, but she has "dodged" it. *** THE MAC BATTENBERG.--_Mr. Punch_ is delighted to hear that mother and child are doing well, and congratulates the Infant Princess on being the first of the Royal Family to be born in Scotland since 1600. Could not the next be born in Ireland? "The O'BATTENBERG," would be a splendid title. *** LATEST FROM LICHFIELD.--DR. JOHNSON loved "a good hater." He ought to have flourished next year--Hatey-hate! Ha! ha! * * * * * [Illustration: "EMPLOYMENT." _First Loafer._ "'SAY, MATE, IF THEY WAS TO PUT A SHOVEL IN YER 'ANDS, AN' TELL YER TO GO TO WORK, WOULD YER TAKE IT?" _Second Loafer._ "'COURSE I WOULD." _First Loafer._ "WOULD YER USE IT?" _Second Loafer._ "'COURSE I WOULD?--LIKE A SHOT! I'D SPOUT IT!"] * * * * * ROBERT ON LUXURY.