What seemed to have struck the Amerrycan most, was what he described as the twelve most bewtifool Angels, all most bewtifoolly drest, in most bewtifool close, a playing most bewtifool toons on most bewtifool Arps! which he said reminded him more of Heaven than anythink he had ever seen or heard. He arsked me the name of the bewtifool hair as they played three times, and when I told him as I believed as it was a Welsh wun, and was called "_The March of the Men of Garlick_," he wonderd how men with such bad taste could have written such sweet music. They can tell jolly good staggerers they can! Why one on 'em said as how we was a getting so scrowged up in the old Country, that they thort of giving us jest a little slice of theirs, and as theirs was about thirty times as big as ours, they could easily spare it. But this I must and will say, they are perfect Gennelmen, and, as the best possibel proof of it, they is allers werry libbral to me. ROBERT. * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. [Illustration: Sensational.] Interesting romance is MARION CRAWFORD's _Witch of Prague_: the witch novel might easily have been told in one volume instead of three. Skipping is good exercise. The casual reader, and the travelling reader or journey-alist, won't get much better entertainment for his money than he will find in _Stories of Old and New Spain_, by THOMAS A. JANVIER. No April foolin' around on the part of JANVIER with metaphysical digressions, but all straight to the point. For sensation, try _Saint Mary of the Angels_. Adelphi melodrama isn't in it with this story. Also in _San Antonio_ there is a simple, quiet humour; and _The Legend of Padre José_ is singularly touching. Altogether a book this of infinite variety. (_Signed_) BARON DE BOOK-WORMS. * * * * * "HOW'S THAT FOR HY"-GIENIC?--In spite of the London Season being over, the Hygienic Congress had what 'ARRY would call a "'igh old time" of it in London last week. In anticipation of their next merry meeting, a distinguished member of the Association is already busily engaged in preparing a paper on "The Real and Apparent Connection between 'Hygiene' and 'High Jinks.'" * * * * * UNDER THE SCREW. (_BY A LIBERAL M.P._) [Illustration]