humble, &c._," representing head of a jackass, and some sheepish
sheep, is evidently saying to itself, "Hang the Hanging Committee!
They show me as next door to a donkey."

No. 888. _The Wedding Gifts._ The pretty Bride is a bit frightened at
seeing the Groom leading up two bare-back'd steeds. "Oh!" she cries,
"I can't ride _them_! Why (_to her husband_) did you give me these?"
"My dear," says he, "why not? Here are the bare-backed steeds, and
you've already got the Ring." S. E. WALLER.

No. 892. "_Your Health!_" A Birthday Party at Mr. ERNEST HART'S.
Painted by S. J. SOLOMON. As a subject, the wisdom of SOLOMON is
questionable as a specimen of Hacademie Hart--ahem! However, to the
toast of "_Your Health_!" as addressed to Mr. ERNEST HART, Master SOL
might have added the words, "_Most Ernestly and Hartily_."

No. 928. _Exhibition of Miss Biffin_, "who has no legs to speak of."
"If you saw my ancles," said _Miss Mowcher_, "I should go home and
kill myself." But ARTHUR HACKER, whose capital work it is, calls it
"_Circe_."

No. 937. "_It might have been_," by F. STUART SINDICI, represents
NAPOLEON and WELLINGTON out walking together, in 1847, near the Horse
Guards. "It might have been" _if_ .... But it wasn't--though F. STUART
SINDICI went nap on it, and dreamt it. Why shouldn't JULIUS CAESAR and
Lord BROUGHAM have hobnobbed together over Pommery '74 at FRASCATI'S
in Regent Street, or why shouldn't the Great Duke of MARLBOROUGH and
Admiral HAMILCAR of Carthage, after leaving _Hoi Adelphoi_ at the
theatre, have taken supper at RULE'S in Maiden Lane? Why not? "It
might have been"--of course; why, when you come to think of it,
there's hardly anything that mightn't have been, _if_ it had only
taken place. Such possible subjects would fill the most vast picture
gallery in the _Chateau d'If_.

[Illustration: An Artist's work "on the Line."]

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[Illustration: PICK OF THE PICTURES.

(_New Gallery, Regent Street. Summary of Sixth Summer Exhibition._)]

[Illustration: No. 40. The Bather Bothered. Appropriately painted by
Mr. Waterhouse, R.A. "Why," exclaims the horrified nymph, "he's lying
on my clothes!"]

[Illustration: No. 216. Night-Mares. Neptune's Horses, but more
suggestive of Night Mares. Walter Crane.]

[Illustration: No. 22. "Mr. G." in Churchwarden Church. "Here endeth
the Second Reading." Sydney P. Hall.]

[Illustration: No. 195. Hurried Moments! An Elopement!! "Nev