O, Bird of Eve! whose love-sick notes, I hear across the dale, Who nightly to the moon and me Dost tell thy hapless tale! The lad's voice was as true as the trill of the bird of which he sang, and this time it was the great tenor who sat and--thought, of those happy Westminster days, of those bewildering banquets at which he used to sing, of the glasses of port, the palatable biscuits, the useful two-shilling pieces. Perhaps he thought of more. The lad sang again and again, until at twenty past nine o'clock, ten minutes before dispersing, the chairman gave out the number of the last glee, and Edward Lloyd shared my book as we listened to S. Webbe's beautiful music set to-- Rise, my joy, sweet mirth attend, I'm resolved to be thy friend; Sneaking Phoebus hides his head, He's with Thetis gone to bed: Tho' he will not on me shine, Still there's brightness in the wine; From Bacchus I'll such lustre borrow, My face shall be a sun to-morrow! HARRY HOW. * * * * * NOTE.--In the Illustrated Interview with Sir George Lewis in our December issue, page 655, the following paragraph occurs: "Sir George prosecuted in a number of bank failures, the result of the Joint Stock Act of 1862. In addition to Overend and Gurney's, there were Barnett's Bank of Liverpool, the Unity Bank," etc., etc. The words "Barnett's Bank" should read "Barned's Bank." We much regret the mistake, which makes it seem that we referred to the well-known and old-established firm of Messrs. Barnett & Co., of South Castle Street, Liverpool. _Beauties._ [Illustration: Miss Croker _From a Photo by Chancellor, 55, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin._ Mrs. WH COOK _From a Photo by W. Duffus, 26, Queen Street, Huddersfield._ Lady Helen Vincent _From a Photo by Chancellor, 55, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin._] [Illustration: Miss Maud Gonne _From a Photo by Chancellor, 55, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin._ Miss Jameson. _From a Photo by Chancellor, 55, Lower Sackville Street, Dublin._ Mrs. Gardner. _From a Photo by W. & A. H. Fry, 68, East Street, Brighton._] [Illustration: Evelyn Millard _From a Photo by Alfred Ellis, 20, Upper Baker Street, N.W._ Christine Beauclere _From a Photo by W. Bradnee, 40, Fleet Street, Torquay._ Miss Hamilton _From a Photo by Russell and Sons, 17, Baker Street._] _From Behind the Speaker's Chair._ XII. (VIEWED BY HENRY W. LUCY.) [Sidenote: MR. G. AND MR. D.]