RULE III.--"_Work regularly, at certain hours._" Ascertain the time the Lark rises, and be up with it. Always be up to time, and to any amount of Larks. Let everybody in the house know you're at work. Sing as the Lark does, and be joyous. Insist on your room being fitted up for work,--at your parents' expense, of course,--with writing-desk, silver inkstand, paper, pens, a library of books, &c., and you must let it be distinctly understood by everyone that you are "not to be disturbed on any account," as you are going in for being a Fictionist. RULE IV.--"Read no Rubbish," says Mr. BESANT. But this is what every author would say, making certain exceptions. But we should say, "_Read Everything_." _Then begin to write._ Here is an example: say you read _Pickwick_. Well, you _write_ a book called _Nikpik_, a Russian story, plot in St. Petersburg, characters, _Nikpik_, _Kinkel_, _Grazsnod_, and _Putmann_. You represent a sporting scene where _Putmann_, with his eyes shut, kills a bird, and afterwards _Kinkel_ wounds _Putmann_. "Hullo," says the reader, "uncommonly like _Pickwick_, and writes impetuously and indignantly to papers. Whereupon, you write in reply, saying "it may be so: _les grands esprits se rencontrent_: but that you have never heard of _Pickwick_, much less read it." By this time everyone will allow that you are entitled to be regarded as the greatest Fictionist of the age. Other rules Mr. BESANT gives, for which anyone sufficiently interested in detecting the errors of his advice _gratis_, may search the _Atalanta Magazine_ with considerable profit to himself (or herself) especially if he reads _A Christmas Carol_, by CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI, and one tail of _Three Lions_, by that undefeated Fictionist, Mr. RIDER HAGGARD. * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. _Palindromes_, by G. R. CLARKE, is a series of cruelly ingenious verbal cranks--"cranks" seems to be the word, since they are neither quips, quirks, puns, nor jests, consisting of sentences so arranged that, read backwards or forwards, they are precisely the same. An example of this is, "_Was it a rat I saw?_" The illustrations are comically amateurish, and amateurishly comic, but one of the best, "_Selim smiles_," is rather in the early Thackerayan style of pictorial art. The palindromical amusement will probably develop itself, as the acrostic family has done, and we shall soon be reading in "Answers to Correspondents" that their puzzle is referred to in "The Palindromical Editor." The little book is published, as any experienced joker in Scotland might have guessed, by Messrs. BRYCE AND SONS, Glasgow, and if you buy it, "Bang goes a shilling."