"But alas! and alack About six o'clock The good ship strack On the Almond Rock And split like a little split pea." So the story goes on, through divers adventures, "From Timbuctoo to Timbucthree" and so at last home again. The next voyage is to the land of Make-Believe on a Christmas Eve, "in a long, long train of thought." In the course of this tale we are given a little picture of Flip herself, and here it is for you to look at. Only, in the book her shoes and stockings, the inside of her skirt, and the squiggly things on the top of her head are a bright golden colour. [Illustration] The third voyage is all the fault of a toy monkey--"six three-farthings and cheap at the price"--and takes them among whales, mermaids, sea-serpents and other deep-sea creatures. Here, then, are delightful little pictures on every page, which even a two-year-old will enjoy. And here are verses which most boys and girls under seven or eight will like to learn. And the best of it is that it doesn't matter a bit if they do "sing-song" them, for they are the kind of verses which only sound right from the lips of quite small children who have never been taught elocution. EDGAR J. SAXON PICKLED PEPPERCORNS. SOUP.--Oxtail from 10 A.M.--From a Restaurant Menu. What it was in the early morning it would be indiscreet to inquire. * * * * * I learn that a serum for mumps is now being made at the Pasteur Institute. "A number of monkeys were inoculated with the serum," says _The Times_ (30th July), "and a mild form of the disease was produced." It is an age of scientific progress, so we may expect news shortly of sera for toothache, hiccough, and the hump. It will not be necessary to inoculate camels for the last. * * * * * You will say--with Mr Arnold Bennett, the distinguished playwright and novelist--"the tonic effect of ********* on me is simply _wonderful_."--From an advt. in _Punch_. You may join in the chorus if you like, but you mustn't all expect to be simply _wonderful_ playwrights and testimonialists. * * * * * A STRANGE SHAMPOO.... "I make my chemist get the stallax for me," said she. "It comes only in sealed packages, enough to make up twenty-five or thirty individual shampoos, and it smells so good I could almost eat it."--_Secrets of Beauty_ column in _The Daily Sketch_. Which only shows how careful one has to be. * * * * * In the days to come every army will fight on bloodless food.--_Herald of the Golden Age_. When every army fights on bloodless food, we may be just as far from the Golden Age as we are now. * * * * * I am told that an obscure practitioner who sent up an account of some interesting discoveries, addressed to MEDICAL CONGRESS, DIETETICS SECTION, LONDON.