Go and see No. 341, by WILLIAM STOTT, of Oldham, R.B.A.,--a name that sounds quite Shakspearian, like "Goodman Puff of Barson,"--and give yourself three guesses at what W. S. of Oldham means by it. It represents a very carotty-haired young woman, looking pale as a turnip--"white flesh," as the gardeners say--taking a bathe in the sea when no one is looking, and where police regulations are not in force. She is so tallowy in face and flesh colour, and her hair so flaming red, that the title might be, "_A 'Dip' in the Sea_." Well, this is WILLIAM STOTT of Oldham's "_Venus_;" and if you'll turn to No. 183, you will see the same young person, looking none the better for her bath, clothed, with carrots dressed, and neatly bound up, sitting pensively _chez-elle_, probably regretting her recent escapade, and hoping that no one has seen her. Little does she know that WILLIAM STOTT of Oldham has stotted her down in his note-book. 326, "_Hard Hit_," by R. J. GORDON, R.B.A., is clever; but the meaning of its title, as illustrated by a weeping woman flinging herself across the knees of a drunken-looking man, is not quite clear. Has he hit her hard, and is that why she is so distressed? or has his head received a nasty thwack, as indicated by the white hat, lying on the table, twisted out of all shape? At the end of the Catalogue is printed a list of the prices, from which it will be seen what value the artists themselves set on their own pictures. The President of the Licensed Vistlers exhibits only twenty pictures, sixteen of which have no price affixed to them in the list, and are therefore evidently gems, and priceless. * * * * * Founded on Fact. A large lot of ornithologists assembled the other day at Mr. J. C. STEVENS'S Auction Rooms to attend the sale of an egg of the Great Auk--a seafowl, 'ARRY, not a falcon. Great Auks' eggs are precious. This one was knocked down to an enthusiastic gentleman for 160 guineas. Some years ago two eggs of a Great Auk, sold, of course, by auktion, fetched, respectively, 100 and 200 guineas, although both broken, and that before they were knocked down. Surely the Great Auk must have been the original bird signified in tradition under the name of the legendary goose that laid the golden eggs. * * * * * The Premier of the French Cabinet may be well described as "_Nulli Secundus_." He is second to nobody, for the President is Nobody--to speak of. * * * * * FURNISHING FICTIONISTS.