I sometimes look At a cookery book By A. DUMAS, the younger; And find he says That May_en_naise (A certain cure for hunger) Should be spelt so; Not with an _o_, But like Mayenne, that city, Whose siege's fame Supplied the name Mis-spelt now; more's the pity Maybe D's right, Although it might Be just a yarn he's telling. So hope your bard Won't be too hard And simply "D" my spelling. * * * * * 'TOTHER WAY ABOUT.--Mr. LE GALLIENNE says, epigrammatically, that "Beauty is the smile on the face of Power." Humph! Gallant _Mr. Punch_ prefers to put it the other way, and say "Power is the smile on the face of Beauty!" Surely that is equally true. But it's a poor rule (or paradox) that won't work both ways. * * * * * MOTTO MOST PRACTICAL FOR ALL WHO ARE COMPELLED TO TRAVEL CONSTANTLY IN OUR METROPOLITAN PUBLIC CONVEYANCES.--"_In Omnibus Caritas._" * * * * * [Illustration: OUR DECADENTS. _Algy._ "WHAT'S THE MATTER, ARCHIE? YOU'RE NOT LOOKING WELL!" _Archie._ "_YOU_ WOULDN'T LOOK WELL, IF YOU'D BEEN SUFFERING FROM INSOMNIA EVERY AFTERNOON FOR A WEEK!"] * * * * * VERSE AND CHORAL SUMMING-UP. [Of a recently protracted discussion in the _Times_ on "Anglican Orders," set to the air of what was once upon a time a popular song, entitled _Billy Barlow_.] Of _my_ re-appearance, My friends, don't complain, I've turned up before, I shall turn up again! We are where we were When we started, and so For awhile bid good-bye To your WILLIAM BARLOW. O dear! Lackaday oh! What a puzzling old party was Bishop BARLOW! * * * * * Two "General" Favourites. The one, Sir BOB REID, Q.C., M.P., "to be Attorney-General"; the other, FRANK LOCKWOOD, Q.C., M.P., "to be Solicitor-General." REID and Right. Commercial value, one "Bob" and a "Frank," _i.e._ One-and-tenpence the pair. * * * * * FUTURE FAME.--Mr. T. E. ELLIS, M.P., "speaking at Colwyn Bay" (unkind of him, this, for what has Colwyn Bay done to him? Why not address Colwyn Bay personally instead of "speaking _at_" C. B.), spoke at the same time "at" the House of Lords. "Were the wishes of the people to be continually thwarted by an hereditary and irresponsible Chamber?" That's the style! Twopence coloured. Henceforth Mr. T. E. ELLIS, from being Nobody in particular, will now be known as "Somebody ELLIS." * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. [Illustration: "He saw the greatest quail before him."]