"And after our traditional Yule-tide offerings are over; after the preposterous claims of the postman and the lamp-lighter have been liquidated by liquor or satisfied by sixpences; then can we forget that besides this private bounty we also have a duty to our country? Lives there the man with soul so dead, Whose heart within him has not bled, And who, quite promptly has not fled, at mention of that grandest of Nineteenth Century inspirations, the Jubilee Imperial Institute? The Imperial Institute is----" (Here mention what it is. If you don't quite know, you can count upon none of your readers being any the wiser. Then add appeals for cash, a few more Yule-tide common-places, and a general and genial wind-up.) * * * * * When a judgment is re-versed, ought not the original to have been in rhyme? * * * * * [Illustration: hand] NOTICE.--Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper. To this rule there will be no exception. [Illustration: INDEX] ABSURD to a Degree, 13 Actor's Progress (The), 203 Adam Slaughterman, 88 Addio, Adelina! 286 Advice Gratis, 246 Albert Hall Concert, 244 All in Play, 49, 88, 100, &c. All the Difference, 82, 222 "All the Talents," 300 Almost too Good to be True, 251 Alteram Partem, 278 Amen! 253 American China, 146 American Chorus, 249 Another "Butler;" or, A Thorne in his side, 301 Another Chance for Joe and Jesse, 215 Arms and the (Police) Man, 17 'Arry at the Sea-side, 111 'Arry on Angling, 45 'Arry on his Critics, 280 'Arry on Law and Order, 249 'Arry on Ochre, 169 Artist's Holiday (The), 94 At Hawarden, 226 At Home with Atoms, 114 At the Lyceum, 26 At the Naval Review, 30 At the Oval, 61 Autumn Lay (An), 189 BABES in the Christmas Wood (The), 267 Backing Baco, 126 Bacon Again, 288 Bacon v. Shakspeare, 286 Bad News for Tea-Drinkers, 192 Ballade of the House (A), 82 Ballade of the Timid Bard, 185 Ballet (The), 97 Bard at Henley (The), 5 Barr Drink (A), 137 Bartlett's Baby, 214 Battle of the Way (The), 157 "Bearing of it lies in the Application" (The), 219 Bicyclists of England (The), 145 Big Work and Little Hands, 184 Bishop and Port, 254 Black Affair at Hayti (A), 217 Blessings in Disguise, 29 Bob Sawyer Redivivus, 179 Bogey in Bond Street, 190 "Bon Voyage!" 93 Bounties to Foreigners, 205 Boy and the Bear (The), 142 Brigand's Doom (The), 129 Burly Gentleman (A), 232 Burning Question (A), 96 By a Canterbury Belle, 69 By George! 231 CASE-o'-my-Banker, 118 Chairs to Mend, 190 Change, 75 Change of Name, 106 Channel Talk, 81, 191 "Charles our Friend," 222 Chess-shire Cheese (A), 58 Chimes (The), 294 Christmas Crimes, 310