"HENRY JAMES. Dear me! No University education. Must refer to CICERO as a barrister. _Solicitor Generalis_ doesn't sound right somehow. Refused to be Lord Chancellor. _Mem._ Get good joking Latin for Woolsack. Factory and Workshops Act must see me through. "JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN. Hard nut to crack. Can't say I like him myself. _Birminghamiæ decus; civium consensu ter_--What the dickens is Mayor in Latin? Did anybody make screws in ancient Rome? _Mem._ Work up orchids and eyeglass. _Una cum Cancellario nostro seni grandi restitit._ Absolutely no literary distinction. Still, he's got a son who was a Cambridge man. Must get in a sly dig at OSCAR BROWNING and East Worcestershire. Something about old-age pensions. Bah, I hate the job! "JOHN MORLEY. Humph! Delicate ground. Home Rule's got to be skimmed over. Only consistent Home-Ruler of the lot (_sibi constat_). Books by the dozen (_lucidus ordo, etc._). French Revolution (_res novæ_). Ardent reformer (_res renovanda radicitus_). Ought to drag in _impiger, iracundus, inexorabilis acer_. Better not, on second thoughts. "That's enough for one morning. Polish off the rest to-morrow. _Mem._ WEBSTER won two miles against Oxford (_duo millia passuum; Oxoniensibus triumphatus_, and a few japes about Isthmian games. Must fetch them). Remember to give ROBY one or two for himself over his Latin grammar. Mostly wrong. He'd better stick to making reels of cotton. SEELEY and the others can wait." * * * * * MR. HARDUP lately came into a large fortune, and changed his name to SKATTERKASH. He has started a coach, and drives four duns. "The duns used always to be after me," says he; "now I've got 'em before me. It's a pleasant reminder of unpleasant times." * * * * * KENSINGTON GARDENS. (_IN THE SUMMER EVENINGS, AFTER EIGHT._) _As they are, always._--Closed. Within, a solitary policeman, moping. Without, the jaded citizens, gasping on a dusty road, and gazing through the iron railings at the cool groves within. A mile away, or nearer, some military bands (paid--by whom?--no matter--ultimately by tax-payers, who don't get much for their money), bored to death for lack of work, and any number of charitable institutions spending half their funds in advertising for more. _As they might be, sometimes._--Open. At the gate energetic policemen taking the shillings of eager citizens who crowd in to sit and smoke in the cool groves, lighted by inexpensive Chinese lanterns, and to listen to the music of the military bands, now alert, cheerful and occupied. Scattered through the cool groves a few energetic, but unobtrusive, policemen, seeing that everyone behaves as quietly as at the Fisheries or the Healtheries. And (the next morning) any number of charitable institutions receiving the shillings thus virtuously and profitably spent. * * * * * SYLLOGISMS OF THE STUMP.