Two lovely brown eyes! Oh, what a surprise! Art-loving-Man is _less_ likely to black Two lovely brown eyes! [Illustration] * * * * * MEN OF THE PAST. (COMPILED BY _THE_ MAN OF THE PRESENT.) CROMWELL.--An English Brewer. Uncertain about his aspirates. Distinctly vulgar. Face disfigured by warts. PETER THE GREAT.--Quite a common sort of Russian. Man with coarse tastes. Came to England to learn ship-building. Fond of low society; in fact, the type of an enterprising cad. WASHINGTON.--Entirely provincial English rebel, who caused considerable trouble in America. Family fair, but not to be traced beyond three generations. Used to eat peas with his knife. HANNIBAL.--Brutal barbarian. Feeblest ideas of stategy. Went the wrong way over the Alps. Given to oaths from childhood up. Quite a classical nobody. BUONAPARTE.--A Corsican _Parvenu_. * * * * * The Garrick School. School for young actors is the Garrick Playhouse. Upon the road to fame a quarter-way house For IRVING _fils_. And likewise note we there The heir apparent of a parent HARE. * * * * * "_DIO, age_!" of which the classic American translation is, "Do tell!" * * * * * JOURNAL OF A ROLLING STONE. NINTH ENTRY. Curious thing, now that I am installed as a pupil in FIBBINS'S Chambers in Waste Paper Buildings, Temple, how few _new_ briefs I am given to read. Usual routine is for DICK FIBBINS to hand me a brief on which the dust of ages has collected, and to leave me to "get up the law about it"; but when he (FIBBINS) comes back from his day's business in Court, about 4·30 P.M., he doesn't seem to care a bit to know what the law is. Seems tired, and prefers to gossip and smoke; so I do the same, or "follow on the same side," as he expresses it. "It strikes me forcibly," I begin, "that the Plaintiff, SMITHERS, in that running-down case you asked me to read to-day, hasn't got the ghost of a chance. Why, in _Blatherson_ v. _Snipe_, the Court ruled--" "Tried the lawn-tennis in the gardens yet?" FIBBINS interrupts, in the rudest possible manner. "No," I reply, "I was speaking of the Court, not lawn-tennis courts." (One for FIBBINS, I think.) "All the Judges held in _Blatherson_ v. _Snipe_, that--" "Oh, did they?" he interrupts again: "doosid interesting. Was I for plaintiff or defendant?" "Plaintiff, SMITHERS. A running-down case." "Wish it had been a running-up case--a case of running-up the fees," he laughs. Then, resuming a more professional style, "You see, I've had such multitudes of cases since then, that I've forgotten the precise details. But you write out your own Opinion--not to-day; tomorrow will do. Then I'll see what it's like. Now let's go a trot down the Strand."