* * * * * PICTURES OF THE YEAR THAT NO PATRON OF ART CAN POSSIBLY OVERLOOK.--Those that are sky'd. * * * * * "SCOTS, WHA HAE." (_New Version. Sung at the Opening of the Edinburgh International Exhibition, May 1._) [Illustration] Scots, wha hae at Paris bled, Scots, wham COOK hath aften led, Welcome to the white, green, red, Of your ain Great Exhibition. Now's the day and now's the hour; Though you have no Eiffel Tower! See the bawbees pile and pour; All the world shall crowd to see! Wha will want to pinch and save? Wha to see it will not crave? Wha will not declare it brave? Far from Edinbro' let him flee! Wha will wish to see the sight Of the graund electric light, And the "Kiowatt" of might? Caledonian! on wi' me! Ninety acres on the plain! Almost apes the Show by Seine. Won't folk flock by tram and train To our International Show. Let the Incandescents glow, Sixteen thousand, row on row! SANDY all the world will show He will beat the best--or die! * * * * * MODERN TYPES. (_By Mr. Punch's Own Type-Writer._) No. XI.--THE YOUNG GUARDSMAN. [Illustration] The Young Guardsman believes himself to be not only the backbone of the British Army, its vital centre and support, but also its decorative master-piece. Other officers, of whom the Guardsman is wont to speak with a vague pity as belonging to "some line regiment," are not apt to sympathise with him in this exalted estimate of his military position and functions. They are accustomed to urge, that he is to the general body of officers as gold lace is to the uniform he wears, a gaudy ornament fashioned for show and useless for the practical work of the military profession. Doubtless "these are the forgeries of jealousy," or, if true at all, they are true only for that limited period of the Guardsman's existence, during which he pays more attention to his own dressing than to that of his men, and imagines that the serious objects of life are attained when he has raised the height of his collar by half an inch, or invented a new fashion of transfixing a silk scarf with a diamond pin. In fact it is during the first flush of his youth that he displays those characteristics which have specialised the Guardsman amongst the golden lads who afterwards come to the dust of middle-age and a colonelcy.