Undergraduate Society is, however, of an extraordinary tolerance, and if it had not been for his own manifest misery, he might have kept his head up in Cambridge even under these calamities. But he began too late to realise his own folly, and with the memory of his triumphs and his collapse, of his extravagance and his debts clogging his efforts, he tried to read. He did read, feverishly, uselessly, and when his list appeared his name was absent from it. Then followed the fatal interview with his father, and the inevitable crash, in the course of which he became the defendant in a celebrated case on the subject of an infant's necessaries. An occupation was sought for him, but all capacity for honest effort seemed to have perished with his frankness and his cheerfulness. After creeping about London in a hang-dog fashion for a year or two, he eventually decided to tempt misfortune in the Western States of America. For a time he "ranched" without success, and was heard of as a frequenter of saloons. A year later he died ignobly by the revolver of a Western rowdy, in the course of a drunken brawl. * * * * * MUSICAL FORECASTS.--Mr. PADDY REWSKI will play variations on his own national Melodies, including the _Gigue Irlandaise_, entitled, "_Donnybrook Fair_."--Mr. CHARLES REDDIE'S Pianoforte Recital is fixed for the 17th. It is not placarded about the town, as the clever pianist says, he's perfectly REDDIE, but he's not WILLING.--Mr. JOSEF DASH-MY-LUD-WIG is going to give a Second Chamber Concert on behalf of the Funds of the Second Chambermaid Theatrical Aid Society.--Mr. CUSINS' Concert is on the 12th. Uncles and Aunts please accept this intimation. * * * * * [Illustration: EXPERIMENTS BY THE GRAND OLD HYPNOTISER AT ST. STEPHEN'S.] * * * * * A HARMLESS GHOST. [A Gentleman advertises for an old house, and says, "Harmless Ghost not objected to."] _A Spectre speaks_:-- TELL us, good Sir, what is a Harmless Ghost? One who walks quietly at dead of night, For just a single hour or so at most, And never gives folks what is termed a fright? Is it a Ghost that never clanks his chains, That never gibbers, and that bangs no door: But quietly and peacefully remains In calm possession of some upper floor? A Harmless Ghost is not a Ghost at all, Unworthy of the name; no Headless Man, Or other spectre that could men appal, Would condescend to live 'neath such a ban. No phantom with a grain of self-respect Would make a promise never to do harm. Find your old house, but please to recollect, A Ghost who knows his business _must_ alarm. * * * * * MORE MASQUERADING. DEAR MR. PUNCH,