THE LAW OF CROCHET.

There are some other Clauses, but their nature will be explained on the discussion of the measure. The charge ARLIAMENT has a of the Bill in the House of Lords will length been compelled be entrusted to LORD BROUGHAM, to give its ever-tardy who is celebrated for his Crotchetattention to a question work, and in the House of Commons deeply affecting the do- to MR. DISRAELI, because he really mestic happiness of works very fairly-with a hook. thousands of her MA

JESTY'S married sub-
jects. We allude to

the Crochet question. THE NO-HOUSE OF COMMONS. The miseries arising

from the unsettled state

ONE of the most melancholy results

of the law upon this of the No-House on Tuesday, the subject have resulted in 18th of May, is the extreme activity an agitation which has made that has been given to the small joke itself constitutionally heard. market, by the fact of there not having Meetings have been held in been forty members present on the all the smoking rooms of the occasion in question. Every idle clubs, in the lobbies of the tongue that can wag, has attempted Operas, in the apartments of some waggery on its own very small bachelor friends (after sup-account, and some of the "transacper), and in the various other tions" have been, indeed, worthy of places of refuge to which the "stocks" in a rural point of view; the sufferers had been driven for if any village stocks are yet to be by Crochet persecution; and found, the perpetrator of a bad pun it has been finally resolved ought to be made the subject of an that a Bill shall be forced immediate transfer into that low class through the Houses, imme-of security.

diately after the Easter re- Two or three quotations will give a
cess, to settle the question sufficient idea of the disastrous results
satisfactorily. This bill has that have ensued to common sense,
actually been prepared, and from the cause we have stated.
Mr. Punch's précis-writer An individual, who had formerly
sat up all night to take out moved in a respectable sphere, was
the legal phraseology, and to heard to observe, that if the Commons
substitute English and com- occasionally made " No-House," they
could not get through the business of
the country "No-Hows."

mon sense, in order that the outlines of the measure might be laid before the nation. The character of the bill will be seen from the analysis thus prepared. The measure is entitled,

AN ACT to Amend, Consolidate, and Define the Law of the Crochet-Hook, The Preamble recites that the power of the Crochet-Hook has increased, is increasing, and ought to be diminished. Clause 1. enacts that no married lady shall, under any circumstances (not even the absolute necessity of finishing "this duck of a pattern, because I am quite in love with it"), be permitted to work at Crochet more than fourteen hours out of the twenty-four. Clause 2. enacts that if a calf's head be sent up to the dinner-table badly cooked, it shall be no plea on the part of the lady of the house that she could not see after it because she was so busy with

her Boar's Head.

Clause 3. exempts a husband from all the penalties of looking grumpy and being a disagreeable cross old thing, in certain cases; namely,

When a lovely anti-macassar is held up for his admiration, he having at the time one or more buttons deficient in his shirt.

When he comes home by appointment, to take her to see the Apteryx at the Zoological Gardens, and finds her not dressed, and reluctant to move, because she has just found out a new way of purling 14, by casting off 11, and dropping 3465.

When she pretends to hear his last joke from the club, but obviously does not, as her lips and mind are palpably counting loops.

Clause 4. enacts that if a wife persists in an unreasonable attachment to Crochet after due notice namely, first, a gentle hint from her beloved EDWIN; next, a half-joking remonstrance from his most intimate bachelor friend; and lastly, a grave entreaty from her mother-in-law-the conjugal tie shall be held to be dissolved to the extent following:-EDWIN may go to Blackwall whenever he pleases, and without ANGELINA, even though there are ladies in the party; may take a bed at old BAFFINS's at Twickenham, or his cousin Tom's at Hampstead, without ever saying a word about it previously; may be utterly deaf to all allusions about ANGELINA's having nothing to go to the Opera in; and may render that fact practically of less importance, by not intimating the slightest intention of taking her there. Clause 5. provides that nothing in that Act contained shall prevent a devoted wife from sitting up till any hour of the night darning stockings, or mending the children's things. Clause 6. declares that all disputes arising as to the meaning of any words in the Act shall be settled by the husband, without appeal. Clause 7. enacts that Oaths shall not (for the future) be taken by the husband in certain cases, or uncertain ones either; the Act having now provided a remedy for all cases of Crochet aggravation. Clause 8. provides that the husband shall be obliged to furnish the wife with the means of rational and sensible amusement during his absence from home; namely, if a lawyer, he had better give her copying to do; if a merchant, he can send her account-books to cast up; and, if an author, he can desire her to read his works; but this latter task (which no author's wife can condescend to perform) is to be prescribed in moderation.

Another individual, whose name we suppress out of respect to an aged grandmother, was no sooner told that the House had risen, because there were not forty members present, than he exclaimed, "Oh! can't they get on without forty being present? But mined that, if they cannot always obI suppose the Commons are deterserve the suaviter in modo, they will at least make sure of the forty-ter in re."

Another individual, whose indiscreet waggery has taken a sort of anti-privilegious turn, which may one day bring him not only to the bar of public opinion, but to the bar of the House, was rash enough to remark, in the hearing of our farthing-a-liner, "Ha! it's an odd coincidence that forty of them should be required in order that business may be proceeded with, for we all know that there were exactly forty thieves."

Another still more degraded being, who unites two professions, according to the Johnsonian theory, and who, being a punster by day, is-we need not say what-by night, was so far indifferent to all consequences, that in the hearing of an individual with a horsewhip in his hand, he had the rashness to remark, that "the business of the session must be proceeding very piano indeed, when the forte cannot always be relied upon."

We feel that we have somewhat braved the indignation of the public in bringing under their notice these evidences of mental infirmity; but perhaps when the Commons see the disClause 9. empowers a husband to taunt his Crochety wife in any gentle and humorous way, as, if turbance occasioned to a portion of the she asks him to take her to the Isle of Wight, he may reply that he shan't, for she has had enough public intellect by the fact of there of the Needles. Or, if she requests any old clothes of his (to be converted, by a certain mystic process, being No House, it may render them into geraniums and fuchsias,) he may ask her if she thinks he is as fond of casting off" as she is. And careful how they are guilty of such she is expressly interdicted from pouting thereat or thereafter, or at any other time or times whatsoever. laches again.

French host, clad in steel, bent the knee on the 10th of May,

THREE CHEERS FOR BEN DISRAELI, amid the discharge of 100 pieces of French ordnance. Are
The OLDEST ESTABLISHED PROPHET! you listening to me, my Lord? We teach the treatises which
Now's your time, my boys! Send me 12 Postage Austria teaches, where your nation has been openly and
Stamps, and I will forward you the Derby Pick, publicly insulted, where your ambassador is at this moment
and no mistake. Recollect, I have always pro- barely tolerated, and where the person called' Our own Cor-
phesied that Free Trade was the horse to win, respondent' is no longer permitted to publish his foul anti-
and I now advise you to get on as fast as you can. Catholic slanders from Vienna to London."
I have got a good thing or two for the Election
Races, rapidly approaching.
With horror, loathing, shame, and indignation,
Be liberal, and I will bring have we read of Roman Catholic priests, in
you in handsomely. I never Elizabethan times and since, half-hanged and
deceived you, and wouldn't,
though you were to pay me ripped up alive. Such atrocities we blushed for
for it. My connexion with as chargeable on Protestant persecution, albeit
the leading stables (where resulting from those
the Stable Mind is kept)
enables me to give you the
very best information. All
my horses are rapidly rising
(next grass), and you are
fools if you do not rise with
them. Bear in mind I am

the Celebrated Winner this
year, in spite of the prophe-
cies of those short-sighted
chestnut from a chestnut
horse, that I wouldn't come
in. So, boys, who's afraid?

fools who don't know a horse

Back BEN, and he's sure to lead you on to Victory. Remember, there is but one Horse, and BENJAMIN is his Prophet! That Horse, I tell you, is Free Trade. Back him, and you must go in and win. I have also a Clipper for the next Parliament, and no mistake. BEN intends starting a Four-in-Hand on the Derby Day; terms, whatever you please, including a bottle of Champagne. So don't be faint-hearted; but send a stamped envelope immediately to Dizzy, Post Office, Caucasia, directed-"To be left till called for."" Not a minute ought to be lost. Send your money, with the full certainty of winning. BEN never felt so sanguine about the Derby, before. Hurrah!

DR. CAHILL'S ULTRAMONTADE.

THE REV. DR. CAHILL, or some maniac who writes under his signature, has-o descend to vulgar phraseology-"tipped" the PREMIER a "JUNIUS." Yes-for DR. CAHILL'S epistles -like those of JUNIUS-are "full of sound and fury;" but then, to be sure, JUNIUS's Letters contained something more.

DR. CAHILL'S object is twofold; so objects generally appear to a person in that condition wherein he, apparently, writes. But CAHILL'S objects are different one from the other-rather different. One is to resent the proposed inquiry respecting Maynooth as an affront; the other, to court that same investigation. We are afraid we are poaching on the manor of DR. FORBES WINSLOW in quoting the subjoined language, the discussion of which may appear considerably more suitable to the pages of The Journal of Psychological Medicine than to those of Punch:

"Judges of former times pronounced sentence without vulgar gibes, and the executioners of the law despatched their victims without poisoning the edge of the axe, or steeping the rope in vitriol."

MR. CALCRAFT must not mind DR. CAHILL. MR. CALCRAFT must see what a state of mind he is in to insinuate that our modern executioners poison their axes, and steep their ropes in sulphuric or nitric acid. Everybody knows that to poison an axe, in order to chop off a head, would be a mere device to kill a dead man; an act of malice which would never be thought of but by a frantic Irish priest, with a Protestant in his power, and having an axe, and some poison at hand, but no fire. And, of course, no one in his senses would for a moment believe that MR. CALCRAFT is so ignorant of the chemistry of hemp and of the mineral acids, as to soak his halters in such fluids, and thereby destroy them, or convert them into xyloidine, or a substance similar to gun-cotton.

Nor must the sages of the Law, any more than its finisher, be offended with DR. CAHILL. No one imagines that LORD CAMPBELL and his learned brethren are accustomed to chaff the culprits whom they condemn-to mistake the black cap for the fool's. The poor man, perhaps, confounds the present with the past. He may remember that there were certain judges who used to deliver over a heretic to be roasted alive, with an ironical request that he might be dealt with without bloodshed.

"Bloody instructions, which being taught, return To plague the inventor."

But DR. CAHILL'S effusions induce us rather to suspect that those cruelties should be imputed, simply, to the defective psychology of the period, which could not distinguish between the insane Roman Catholic priest and the popish traitor. Mad doctors of Romish divinity may then, as now, have threatened their government with foreign arms, and have received their answer on the scaffold.

If we thought that CAHILL had the least sound portion of brain remaining, we would seriously remonstrate with him for labouring, as it would seem, to bring odium on his party; which is really too bad, especially at present. As it is, we will only say that the Roman Catholics ought to look after DR. CAHILL, or the person who writes in his name; especially now that so much alarm and irritation relative to Popery exist among the people of this country, who are apt to judge of a body by its leaders, and are very loth to admit the plea of insanity as an excuse either for felony or constructive treason.

introduced for those who personally know no THE SIMPLE TRUTH.-"Betting-Offices" were

better.

As to DR. CAHILL, it is useless to reason with him, to ask what headsman, with any head of his own, would poison an axe, when he might poison a lancet; what JACK KETCH would be such a booby as to subject his rope to corrosion? Therefore, we would discard the idea of the rope in connexion with that of treason, as suggested by such stuff as this:A MILD HIT.-The fact of there having been "No, Sir, the inquiry which is offered in insult will, and must, eventuate in our advantage. We can well no House a few nights ago may be regarded in a defend our theology. We teach the theology of France, to which the RUSSELLS, the PALMERSTONS, the DERBYS, the WELLINGTONS, and the TRUROS of France, bent uncovered to the earth on the 10th of May, in the Champs scientific point of view as a piece of negative de Mars. Do you understand me, LORD DERBY? We teach the discipline and the doctrine to which 60,000 of the electricity," for every one was much shocked at it.

ANOTHER AFFAIR OF HONOUR.

them a remembrance-a sort of house-
hold god-to slow bagpipe music wend
to the shore; then embark in the
boats.

XTRAORDINARY as it may ap-
pear, the following correspond- SCENE 3.-Deck of the Golden
ence has just been put into our Fleece crowded with aforesaid inha-
hands, with full permission to bitants of Skye. Anchor weighed-
make what use we please of bagpipe sounded-and departure.
it. Having first offered it
to a butterman who refused to beautiful moving panorama of sea and
(Here may be imagined a very
name a price for it, we beg sky; dolphins, flying-fish, &c., &c.,
leave to present it to our and ships going and coming. Ap-
readers:-
proach of land-land made; land con-
tinued until it stretches into the
Bush.)

"Gander and Egberts,
past 3 P.M.

"MR. DIMITY presents his SCENE 4. An extensive view of compliments to MR. WHITEY the Bush; so extensive that hunBROWN, and has been requested dreds of Skye shepherds and families by MR. LAVENDER KIDDS, to are seen in various places; the aforeinquire whether MR. WHITEY said shepherds and families so ruddy BROWN admits the remark at- and sleek, that their dearest creditors, tributed to him, with reference if they had any, would not know them. to the influence of MR. LA- Curtain falls to the music of bagpipes VENDER KIDDS on the female playing Auld Lang Syne.

customers to the lace and fancy department of our great establishment.

"G. and E's., 20 minutes past 3 P.M. "MR. LAVENDER KIDDS begs to acknowledge the communication from MR. DIMITY. MR. LAVENDER KIDDS adopts the remark attributed to him, with reference to MR. WHITEY BROWN, and refers MR. DIMITY to MR. GINGHAM TWILL for any further explanation."

These two letters were followed by an interview between MR. GINGHAM TWILL and MR. DIMITY, after which several letters passed, the object of which was a demand on the part of MR. DIMITY that MR. LAVENDER KIDDS should withdraw a certain adjective from a sentence he had made use of in reference to MR. WHITEY BROWN-a demand that MR. GINGHAM TWILL refused to comply with in the name of MR. LAVENDER KIDDS.

A meeting was accordingly arranged to take place between the parties on Saturday afternoon, on Hampstead Heath; and MR. LAVENDER KIDDS, accompanied by MR. GINGHAM TWILL, arrived on the Heath, viá Kentish Town, at the hour appointed, when they were met by MR. WHITEY BROWN, attended by MR. DIMITY, who had come by the direct route, per omnibus.

The presence of such a considerable party excited much attention on the Heath, and to avoid observation it was determined to strike into the furze bushes in the interior. To allay suspicion the party partook of curds and whey previous to starting. There being only one mug among the four, it was found inconvenient for the two principals to drink out of the same vessel, and there being a good supply of spoons, the difficulty was got over, there being as many spoons as there were persons engaged in the business. One donkey carriage-and-pair having been chartered for the occasion, the driver was dispensed with, and the two seconds led the two donkeys by the nose-one principal occupying the front seat and the other the dickey. On reaching the ground MR. WHITEY BROWN proceeded to measure it deliberately with his yard measure, and after a little converation between the seconds it was arranged there should beinstead of an exchange of shots -an exchange of cigars, so that there might be the usual termination of smoke to the duel. This having been agreed to, MR. LA

t

VENDER KIDDS, after having received his antagonist's puff in his eye, declared himself perfectly satisfied.

THE ISLE OF SKYE AND THE GOLDEN FLEECE.

of

THERE are about twenty millions of sheep in Australia crying for shepherds. Sir CHARLES TREVELYAN avouches the fact. In the Island of Skye the whole population are in danger of perishing for want sustenance. Superfluous mutton on one hand, starving families on the other. What is needful for sheep and men is simply this; to take the Isle of Skye and empty it into the Antipodes.

Talk of playhouse pantomimes-here is a pantomime of real life to be worked; fairy transformations not to end with the fall of the curtain, but, the transformation once effected, to be perpetuated for generations.

Every man with a sovereign to spare, with even half-a-sovereign, may make himself a real, benevolent, twenty or ten-shilling magician. Nothing more easy. We will show it-show it pantomimically how the thing may be done.

SCENE I-Isle of Skye; rocky and barren scenery; mists rolling up from the sea. Population scattered, emaciated, despairing. Hunger, and her attendant fiends prowl through the island. The aspect of all things is that of hopelessness and desolation.

Ship, the Golden Fleece, drops anchor. Mists clear away-sun breaks out. certain well-known persons, whose names brighten committees, pull to the shore. taining clothes and victuals, follow.

Boats, containing

Other boats, con

SCENE 2.-Hundreds of families, the old, the young, all and every one carrying something that is to

Now here is a pantomime that every body, with even half-a-sovereign, may help to produce. A long golden wand is not necessary; but the least bit of the coined metal. For only half-asovereign, and a man may help to change the horrible reality of Skye to the fairy plenteousness of the Antipodes. Gentlemen, your subscriptions for the good ship Golden Fleece.

Minutes of Difference. THERE can be no greater Minutes of Difference, than the Minutes which differ between the various public and railway clocks in the metropolis. It has been suggested, therefore, that these clocks, since they are always disagreeing, should go out and have a meeting-attended, of course, with their proper Seconds-in order that their "Minutes of Difference" might be settled in the same harmless way, and with the same degree of "satisfaction," as has attended another meeting lately at Weybridge. The only question is, if a clock could be found who would have the face to make himself so ridiculous.

No Conscript Fathers! AMONG the exemptions from the conscription under the Militia Bill we observe is included

"Any poor man having more than one child born in wedlock."

If a poor man wishes to be a man of peace it ought to be enough for him to hold out a single olive-branch: we don't see why he should be obliged to produce two.

BAD JOB FOR BLACK-LEGS.

PERHAPS the "knowing ones" at the Derby the other day reaped a less than usually rich harvest, as, owing to the police precautions suggested by MR. ELLIOTT for the prevention of egg-throwing, the greatest yo(l)kels were kept away.

THE WEYBRIDGE DUEL.-It is most astonishing that all those "Minutes of Difference" should have been the work of only two Seconds!

GRAND TOUR DE CONSCIENCE.

upon the canvasses of their brethren as on those of the outer crowd? I can easily conceive the embarrassment of such a task of selection. The hang-men cannot be unknown, as they ought to be, and go about E read a paragraph the other morn- their work like executioners of kings-with masks on. But what a ing which spoke of a "hopeful comfort it would be to see justice done for once! Or, if that be imposrumour" that a certain or un-sible this way, suppose for one year you were to choose your hanging certain late Archdeacon, after jury out of the unlettered of your brother painters ? It appears to me having gone over to the Church probable that the result would be more satisfactory to the public, and of Rome, is expected to come more charitable to the Academy, than in the present mode. I should over again to the Church of certainly be spared the pain of explaining to my pretty country cousin, England. All this re-cantation who will insist on knowing everything-how R.A., No. 1., is supposed and cantation is not very credi- to have gone crazy in his old age, but is still allowed to disport himtable to the intellects of the parties self on these walls, being harmless upon canvas; how R.A., No. 2, concerned, however much it may once produced a good picture, and is therefore to be allowed to go on say for their consciences. One thrusting bad ones under my nose to the end of his painting days; how hardly knows the value to either R.A., No. 3, paints execrable daubs for the Exhibition, it is true, but side of an individual whose posi- then makes such wonderful sketches out of it; how R.A., No. 4, turns tion is like that of a serious pen-out landscapes like feeble teaboards, but then in private is such a gendulum, or of whom it may be tlemanly person :-in short, I should be spared the necessity of exsaid, with respect plaining all the various reasons which account for the fatuous or feeble to his views on re-works on the line with those magic letters in the catalogue, which tend ligious subjects, so to mislead my pretty cousin's judgment. Suppose she should get an Art-Union prize: how do I know that she may not invest incontinent in one of these misplaced liners?

"There he goes back-
wards and forwards,
There he goes round
and round."

to

come

It is my proud privilege, whether in England or in my native Italy, to speak the truth. Even in Naples, where KING BOMBA has gagged A church digni- the press, stifled the cafés, and even muzzled the lazzaroni, he allows tary leaves the Es- PULCINELLO to talk at will in the Chiaja, and to pass all in review, from tablished Church the sentence of POERIO to the prospects of the Sardine fishery. conscientiously enough, no doubt I am therefore privileged, I think, to utter those daring things about -feels unhappy in the august Academy, although I know all I am risking. I suppose I his mind, and wants shall never be invited to the private view, or favoured with a ticket to back the dinner. I don't care; for between ourselves, not having a title, again, when possi- and not being a picture-buyer or a picture-dealer on a large scale, I bly some new preferment will be joyfully bestowed upon him. There don't suppose they would ask me if I praised them all round, from WARD is, however, something inconsistent in the whole proceeding; and to JONES. So I may as well say what I think, in spite of consewe hope we shall not have many cases in which we shall hear of a quences. I say, then, frankly, that there should be a privilege-I will reverend pervert or convert being able to sing, as the Archdeacon not call it a sentence of superannuation for incapable R A.s; or, if they may in the present instancehave such a vested right in the Academy walls, that they must be hung there, let the Octagon room be set apart for a Chamber of Horrors, as it were, to which may be consigned the works of the imbecile, the incapable, and the impertinent amongst the Royal Academicians.

I've been Rome-ing, I've been Rome-ing,

To a creed à la Romaine;

And I'm coming, and I'm coming,

To my living back again.

66 OUR CRITIC " AMONG THE PICTURES.

A CRUISE ABOUT THE LINE.

UNPROFESSIONAL reader, do you know what the Line is at the Academy Exhibition ?

It is the front seat at the theatre; the corner-place, out of the draught, in the railway carriage; the cross-table at the public dinner; the grand stand at the Derby-in short, it is the best place on the walls of the Royal Academy's Rooms, and is of course reserved, first, for R.A.s and A.R.A.s, and, their wants satisfied, for those of the unlettered whom the Academy delighteth to honour.

There would be no lack of tenants for that pleasant little dog-hole. I can imagine what its walls would be this year, with my friend JONES'S Battle of Meeance, in the place of honour, faced by MR. SOLOMON HART's Guttenberg, Faust, and Schaffer, and flanked on either side by the same gentleman's incredibly snobbish Reading for Honours and Preparing for a Pluck. MR. HOLLINS'S Deal Hovellers, and Dieppe Grisettes, and Matelottes would probably take conspicuous places-though it must be said that the painter is better employed on such subjects, than on certain Romeos and Juliets I remember of his. I am afraid that this year I should have to consign my excellent and much-respected friend, MR. LESLIE, to the same limbo. What right has a man like MR. LESLIE to paint me that abominable little Clapham bread-and-butter miss, with a black dose, and to call the lady Juliet, and the physic her sleeping-draught?

The Line is that space of wall which an average man's eye embraces, as he stands, without looking up or down. Painters are as anxious to be hung "on the Line," as convicts are to escape the same fate; and in Trafalgar Square, as in the Old Bailey, gentlemen in this position are pretty sure of attracting a crowd of admirers, or critics, as the case may be. Suppose we take a short cruise along this Exhibition Equator-woman or her occupation. If MR. LESLIE choose to paint MISS SMITH putting in here and there, as beauty tempts, or absurdity provokes, or feebleness requires.

I ask this with some warmth; for the more sincerely I admire and respect MR. LESLIE as a painter-the more distinct my recollection of his exquisite Beatrice, running like a lapwing in the pleached walk, with her arch eyes and sweet bright face-the more charming in my memory the stately and winning grace of his Duchess, and the obese shrewdness of his Sancho-the more angry I have a right to be with that unaccountable defiance of a British public which is involved in putting such a title on such a picture. I have nothing to object to the young of Clapham Rise, as she appeared when about to take her medicine, he is welcome to do so. But let him give the thing its right name, and not mislead my pretty country cousin in this way, and compel me to set her right, which is painful to me, as well as difficult, and often leads to a little unpleasantness between us.

Of course, pictures on the Line challenge criticism. There is no timid bud of just opening genius here that one need fear to wither up with a critical north-easter. Here are the strong men of canvas and colour, quite able to defend themselves-or, if not, by what right are I am not at all sure that I should not consign MR. MACLISE'S Alfred they there? to the cellar with MR. LESLIE's Juliet. I protest I admire MR. MACThe pictures in the Royal Academy Exhibition are hung by an LISE's great power of draughtsmanship, his vigorous way of grasping annual Committee of the Academicians. I don't know how this a subject, and of nailing it down, in precise unmistakeable lines, hanging Committee are selected, or how set to work. With R.A.s upon his canvas. But what a collection of huge, writhen, dead and A.R.A.s, I presume, they have no choice. But these disposed limbs is here!-what an utter absence of harmonious colouring— of, what guides them? One would be tempted, from two or three of artist-like distribution of light and shadow-of dramatic as well indications observable here, to fancy that the magic of these letters as pictorial arrangement of groups-of genuine expression-of natural extends to wives, and sons, and cousins; nay, failing academician kin- texture! Look at those branches loaded with hawthorn bloomlike family fellowships at the Universities to all of academician's every petal made out, every leaflet drawn with pains, but the name. Beyond this, I cannot discover anything to explain how some of the Liners have found their way into this privileged place. I wish to offer you a humble hint, respectable R.A.s. Suppose for once you broke through the rule of hanging all your own pictures on the line? Suppose you directed your hanging committee to deal

whole cut in tin; not a flicker of living light-not a pin's point of true imitation about a thing which, unless truly imitated, is nothing. Observe that mass of fern in the right corner. Compare its leaden ponds with the dewy dankness of MR. ANTHONY's fern brake, in that round picture on your left. There is the true living reality; here is