[Illustration: PHILOMELA AND AQUILA. [It is stated that Madame PATTI presented Mr. GLADSTONE with a box of voice lozenges.] PATTI, take, PATTI, take, Grand Old Man! Give him voice lozenges soon as you can. Pack them, address them, as neat as can be, And courteously hand them to W.G.! Mellifluous Nightingale, melody's source Our Golden (mouthed) Eagle hath grown a bit hoarse; But though Aquila's husky with age and long fights, His sweet Philomela will set him to-rights. A cough-drop, a lozenge, a jube-jube, from _you_, His larynx will strengthen and lubricate too. His old "_Camp Town Races_" he'll pipe again yet; Nay--who knows?--with you may arrange a duet! The eagle is scarcely a song-bird, but still, He may have a good ear for the nightingale's trill! Fair Philomel comes to old Aquila's aid!!! Faith! the picture is pretty, so here 'tis portrayed? ] * * * * * [Illustration: CLEOPATRA IN PARIS. The true History. Queen Cleopatra dying from the effects of several Bites of Asp-aragus. Or is it truer that Queen Cleopatra died from eating too much of something "_En Aspic_"? Ask Sardou, Sara, & Co.] * * * * * AT THE ALHAMBRA.--_Claude Duval_, a new monologue, music by EDWARD SOLOMON. Mr. FRANK CELLI has to "stand and deliver" the lines of Messrs. BOWYER and MORTON. As the description "monologue" is not suggestive of music, why didn't the authors invent a special name for the entertainment, and call it the "Solomonologue"? Most expressive. * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE _The Dead Man's Gift_, by HERBERT COMPTON; the title of which might lead one to imagine something very weird and uncanny. Nothing of the sort. Mr. COMPTON doesn't wish to "make your flesh creep" like the Fat Boy in _Pickwick_. It is only the story of a tea-planter's romance, though the finding of the gift is most exciting. Interesting and well written. _The Cabinet Portrait Gallery_, published by CASSELL & Co., with portraits of most of our Celebrities, by Messrs. DOWNEY, is excellent. [Illustration: "Blackie and Son."]