Last night, when we were playing games, ORIEL went out while we thought of a word, and he got quite angry with me because I had said the moon was "vegetable" and _he_ said it was "mineral." He may be right, or he may not--I daresay he is--but still he need not be touchy, and refuse to play any more, and sulk all the evening. I am afraid I should not be happy with him. He collects postage stamps, too, which depresses me dreadfully. _Please_ write and tell me what to do--or rather, how to do it. Can one get a bangle _rivetted off_?... I have just heard that the LORNE HOPPERS and Captain MASHINGTON are coming to play tennis on Sunday! Of course, I shall show absolute indifference. I wired at once to town for my new dress. Mrs. HOPPER may as well see it. BABY BEAUMONT is always changing his clothes, and has two button-holes sent down from London daily. He says he "intends to revive the gardenia."... ORIEL has just gone out for a "_brisk walk before dinner_." Aren't we _utterly_ unsuited to each other? Your loving friend, GLADYS. P.S.--_Is_ the moon mineral? * * * * * THE GENERAL LITERARY REVIEW COMPANY, LIMITED. CAPITAL £100,000,000, IN 20,000,000 SHARES OF £5 EACH. This Company has been formed to acquire, combine into one, and carry on the various old-established businesses of literary reviewing hitherto carried on separately by Messrs. ANDREW LANG (who will join the Board after allotment), GRANT ALLEN, W. E. GLADSTONE, H. D. TRAILL, T. P. O'CONNOR, WALTER BESANT, ELKIN MATHEWS, JOHN LANE, Q., A.T.Q.C., QUILLER COUCH, RICHARD LE GALLIENNE, and others. All these gentlemen have consented to act as Directors. The advantages of the scheme are obvious. Hitherto critical opinion, as printed in the daily, weekly, and monthly press, has been so diversified as to make it impossible for the public to form a settled judgment on books. For instance, a work may be described in one place as "possessing in the highest degree the master qualities of brilliant humour and profound pathos"; while, in another notice, published on the same day, it may be condemned as "an essay in stupid buffoonery, which mistakes inversion for paradox, and makes a parade of sentiment as laughable as its efforts at humour are melancholy." It is the intention of the Directors to change all this. Frequent Board-Meetings will be held, at which all books sent for review will be carefully considered, with a view to deciding how they shall be treated. The decisions thus come to will be carried out in a series of articles extending with absolute uniformity over the whole field of contemporary literature. [Illustration: ] PROFITS.