the stricken field; but I am afraid
I must confess that the prospect of his return left me indifferent. I
understand that _The Reconnaissance_ originally appeared in _The Daily
Telegraph_; this being so, the persistence with which its characters
quote extracts from _The Times_ savours almost of filial ingratitude.
Seriously, the first part of the novel was a promise which the second
left unfulfilled. Mr. GARDINER is still in my debt.

* * * * *

TO THE CABINET.

(_Suggested by a recent doctoring of "Hansard."_)

The judgment of the People's "Yea" or "Nay"
Wherefore should virtuous men like _you_ shun?
You are--or so you confidently say--
Prepared for dissolution.

Then snatch a hint from HALDANE'S little fake,
Who glanced with eye alert and beady at
His speech in proof, and, for appearance' sake,
Added the word "_immediate_."

* * * * *

"The very clever may bethink themselves of Milton's 'subject of all
verse.'"--_Reynolds' Newspaper._

The mere well-informed will bethink themselves of BROWNE.

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