"After plying regularly for nearly twenty-five years between Vancouver, Victoria and the Orient, the last few months of excitement must have brought back to the memory of her old timbers--if they happen to be sentient, as Kipling would almost have one believe--the famous line, 'One crowded hour of glorious life is worth a cycle of Cathay.'" _News-Advertiser_ (_Vancouver, B.C._) * * * "P. B.--It is a pleasure to read your stirring lines entitled 'To Berlin'; they possess the twin merits of being vigorous and timely. We should make an alteration in title, calling them simply 'To Berlin.'" _Great Thoughts._ No, don't thank us. Our advice is always at the disposal of young writers. * * * * * ENGLISH LINES FOR ENEMY CALENDARS. For the _KAISER_-- "_La Belle France sans merci_ Hath thee in thrall." For the _Emperor of AUSTRIA_, after the rout in Serbia-- "'But what good came of it at last?' Quoth little PETER, king." For the _Commander of the Western Campaign_-- "Of all the towns that are so far There's none so far as Calais." For _General VON MOLTKE_ (retired)-- "Then was I like some watcher on the Rhine When a new plan is forced into his ken." For the _Sultan of TURKEY_-- "He will hold me when his friendship shall have spent its novel force Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse." For the _IMPERIAL CHANCELLOR_-- "Oft had I heard from EDWARD GREY." * * * * * WAR ETIQUETTE. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. _Materfamilias_ (Manchester).--No, it is not necessary for you to wear a dressing-gown for dinner out of compliment to your wounded guests' pyjamas; if you wear your best tea-gown they will not know the difference. _Sweet and Twenty_ (Surbiton).--I do not think your mother could object to your tucking up your charming wounded officer for the night as long as you don a Red Cross cloak over your evening attire. It is not usual to kiss these wounded heroes unless you or they are under seventeen or over seventy. _Veronica_ (Ventnor).--I think the right size of photograph for your second cousin to take with him to the Front depends on its subject: cabinets are usual for dogs, horses and female first cousins; carte size for parents and male relatives; but from the tone of your letter and from the fact that you are only his _second_ cousin, I think there are but two alternatives: boudoir size, or a dainty miniature in a leather case for the pocket, such as can be obtained at Messrs. Snooks for the modest sum of ten guineas. * * * * * "Germans and Austrians at Loggerheads." _Daily Paper._ Another of these Polish towns. * * * * * "PUNCH" IN THE ENEMY'S TRENCHES.