In view of the impending paper-famine a widely-circulated journal announces its readiness to receive back from the public any parcels of old copies marked "waste paper." In the opinion of its trade-rivals the inscription is superfluous. *** A suggestion has been made by a Registrar in Bankruptcy that the Tercentenary of SHAKSPEARE'S death should be celebrated by the performance in every large town of one of the Bard's plays; and some regret has been expressed that anybody should take advantage of a national celebration to boom his own business. *** "'How many of us realise that, were it not for America, the War to-day in Europe, as fought, could not even exist?'" is the question put, according to a New York correspondent, "by Mr. Gutzon Borglum, the great American sculptor." Still the War has its compensations. But for its existence we might never have heard of Mr. GUTZON BORGLUM, the great American sculptor. *** A correspondent, describing the recent food riots in Berlin, says that they were chiefly due to "women who were fed up with the difficulty of providing meals for their families." *** The following notice was found affixed to a building somewhere near the Front: "SIR OFFICERS,--Ask the bathroom's key to the office. The bathroom shall be wash by the servant after bath. Sir Officer without servant shall not have the key." It sounds rather abrupt. *** Owing to the Government demand that nothing in the way of unnecessary expenditure should be allowed, it is expected that all paid lecturers on War Economy and National Thrift will be given a week's notice. *** Opposing a suggestion of the Wandsworth Borough Council to discontinue the issue of fiction from the free libraries, a member of the Women's Freedom League said that a novel was to a woman what a pipe was to a man. Well, not quite, perhaps. We never saw a man begin a pipe at the wrong end. * * * * * [Illustration: "THEY OUGHT TO BE AT THE FRONT. THAT'S THE SORT THEY WANT THERE." "THEY WON'T GO, SIR. THEY'RE CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS."] * * * * * From an article by Mr. AUSTIN HARRISON in _The Sunday Pictorial_:-- "A few strange gentlemen attitudinise in Westminster on principle, but these men would cut capers of principle in any case, like Mr. Snodgrass when he went skating." Or _Mr. Winkle_ when he wrote verses. * * * * * "In the Continental boat-trains the warning, '_Licht linauslehnen_,' has not been removed from the windows.... Occasionally you see that '_Nicht linauslehnen_' has been indignantly pasted over."--_Provincial Paper._ The latter is certainly a little more German than the other. * * * * * After a description of the new lighting order:--