THE GEORGIAN ERA AT THE ALHAMBRA.--Mrs. ABBOTT is an electric wonder. Not strong muscularly, but with sufficient electric power to support four or five of the inferior sex heaped anyhow on a chair. Such a woman is a crown to a husband--nay, any amount of crowns at £200 per week--and capable of supporting a family, however large, all by her own exertions, or indeed, with scarcely any exertion at all. At present, though married, she is a _femme seule_: but how long will she remain the only electric wonder in London? Many years ago there was a one-legged dancer named DONATO. Within sixteen weeks there were as many one-legged dancers. We don't speak by the card, of course, but one-legged dancers became a drug in the market. Already we hear of "A Dynamic Phenomenon" at the Pavilion. Little Mrs. ABBOTT is an active, spry little person, yet her "_vis inertiæ_" is, at present, without a parallel. * * * * * THE TRAVELLING COMPANIONS. NO. XVI. SCENE--_Terrace and Grounds of the Grand Hôtel Villa d'Este, on Lake Como. PODBURY and CULCHARD are walking up and down together._ _Podbury._ Well, old chap, your resigning like that has made all the difference to _me_, I can tell you! _Culchard._ If I have succeeded in advancing your cause with Miss PRENDERGAST, I am all the better pleased, of course. _Podb._ You have, and no mistake. She's regularly taken me in hand, don't you know--she says I've no intelligent appreciation of Italian Art; and gad, I believe she's right there! But I'm pulling up--bound to teach you a lot, seeing all the old altar-pieces I do! And she gives me the right tips, don't you see; she's no end of a clever girl, so well-read and all that! But I say--about Miss TROTTER? Don't want to be inquisitive, you know, but you don't seem to be much _about_ with her. [Illustration: "Bound to teach you a lot, seeing all the old altar-pieces I do!"] _Culch._ I--er--the feelings I entertain towards Miss TROTTER have suffered no change--quite the reverse, only--and I wish to impress this upon you, PODBURY--it is undesirable, for--er--many reasons, to make my attentions--er--too conspicuous. I--I trust you have not alluded to the matter to--well, to Miss PRENDERGAST, for example? _Podb._ Not I, old fellow--got other things to talk about. But I don't quite see why-- _Culch._ You are not _required_ to see. I don't _wish_ it, that is all. I--er--think that should be sufficient. _Podb._ Oh, all right, _I'll_ keep dark. But she's bound to know sooner or later, now she and Miss TROTTER have struck up such a friendship. And HYPATIA will be awfully pleased about it--why _shouldn't_ she, you know?... I'm going to see if there's anyone on the tennis-court, and get a game if I can. Ta-ta!