other public buildings in a certain town which for many
reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning ... on a
day and date which I need not trouble to repeat...."

No, this is not from our Special Representative behind the Front; it
is the opening passage of _Oliver Twist_, and shows what a splendid
War Correspondent DICKENS would have made.

* * * * *

Teuton Anatomy.

"The clay feet of Germany will be revealed when we take off
the gloves."--_Mr. ARNOLD WHITE in "The Sunday Chronicle."_

So that's where they wear them.

* * * * *

"Questioned with reference to a letter written by him to
Steinhauer, in which he said, 'The name of the gentleman in
Woolwich Arsenal is ----,' the prisoner said that was a false
name."--_Times_.

It's a very silly name anyway.

* * * * *

"The announcement issued by the Press Bureau that carrier
pigeons are to be used officially for certain purposes is an
extremely interesting reversion to what we had regarded as
almost premature ways of carrying news."--_Westminster
Gazette_.

Not so premature as the WOLFF method.

* * * * *

More Information for the Enemy.

"BRITAIN'S SUGAR SUPPLY.
SUFFICIENT FOR EIGHT MOUTHS."--_Aberdeen Evening Gazette_.

We insist on providing one of them.

* * * * *

"Now came the drums and fifes, and now the blare of the brass
instruments, and continuously the singing of the soldiers
of 'Die Wacht am goose step, while the good lieges of
Brus-Rhein.'"--_Adelaide Advertiser_.

A good song, but (so it has always struck us) a clumsy title.

* * * * *

Extract from Army Routine Orders, Expeditionary Force, Nov. 9th:--

"It is notified for information that shooting in the Forest of
Clairmarais and certain portions of the adjacent country is
preserved."

Clever Germans are now disguising themselves as pheasants.

* * * * *

THE PRICE OF PATRIOTISM.

Helen and I are economising; so the other evening we dined at the
Rococo.

"That's no economy," you cry; so let me explain.

In common with most other folk who are not engaged in the manufacture
of khaki, or rifles, or Army woollens, or heavy siege-guns (to which I
had not the foresi