She seems "embarrassing and inconvenient!" * * * * * BEER. [Messrs. SPIERS AND POND say in a letter in _The Daily Telegraph_, that "bottled beer is really what the great majority of the public want when they are out for a holiday."] MENTION not the wines of Medoc, nor the vintage of Bordeaux, Or the Burgundy that rivals e'en the ruby in its flow; Though the growers of Epernay and the merry men of Rheims, Pour champagne that holds the sunlight in exhilarating streams; There's a finer nobler tipple, that the Briton's heart doth cheer, And he clings with fond affection to his draught or bottled beer. Amber Rudesheimer charms us wandering by the haunted Rhine, Sparkling Hock near Ehrenbreitstein is a mighty pleasant wine; In agreement with the German we have vowed we loved full well, To behold the bubbles flashing on a goblet of Moselle; But the Briton hugs his tankard, and would count the man an ass Who held not in highest honour nectar from the vats of BASS. Port is worthy of acceptance, once men made the bottle spin; Sherry hath a welcome flavour when the filberts have come in: Scotsmen have been seen imbibing in the mountains of the north, What is known as whiskey-toddy in the lands beside the Forth: But the Englishmen will tell you that for really sterling worth-- BASS'S beer can beat all liquids that were ever made on earth. * * * * * THE BITTER CRY OF THE LONDON RIDER HAGGARD AND JADED. [Illustration] _To the Chief Commissioners of Works, The Ditto of Police, and to "George" Ranger._ WHY not open up rides in Kensington Gardens? Say one good one under the trees from South-West to North-West, and connect Kensington with Bayswater? Will any benefactor to unfortunate Metropolitan Equestrians force this North-West passage? There is a meagre ride at the side of the road in the Inner Circle, Regent's Park. Why not a good ride right across Park? From considerable observation and experience of Kensington Gardens and Regent's Park, it may be confidently asserted, that such rides as are here proposed, would not interfere with the comfort of a single (or married) nurse or governess with children in her charge. Both places are comparatively unfrequented, and the proposed rides would not infringe upon the recreation of the London boys.