ly known to the Army as
'Jock,' he is one of the most remarkable soldiers of the time."

_Glasgow Evening Times._

"That he is known throughout the whole Army simply as 'Wullie'
is a sure token that the private soldier has taken him to his
heart."

_Glasgow Evening Citizen._

Won't the Germans be puzzled?

* * * * *

"Eddie Harvey (Fleetwood) and Ike Whitehouse (Barrow) went
through 15 rounds contest for L5 a side and a nurse, and Harvey
won on points."--_The People._

The stakes, we presume, were divided.

* * * * *

"A kid was born with monkey face and human skull at Saidapet on
the 13th instant."

_New India._

This is headed "A Curious Phenomenon." But is it? Some of our
neighbours' kids are just like that.

* * * * *

[Illustration: THE NEW EDGE.]

* * * * *

LONDON AS USUAL.

("_Kelly's London Directory_" for 1916, a contemporary remarks, is very
much the same as the volume for 1915.)

Where, where are the signs of the raider
Who swam to our ken like a kite,
Who swore he had played the invader
And knocked us to bits in the night;
Who pounded these parts into jelly
From Mile End, he said, to the Mall?
For the man who should know (J. J. KELLY)
Can't spot 'em at all.

You may turn up the street that is Vigo
Or alight on the Lane that is Mark;
You may let your incredulous eye go
O'er each Crescent and Corner and Park;
You may hunt through the humblest of alleys
Or the giddiest haunts of the town,
And Kelly's, who're "safe" as the Palace,
Have got 'em all down.

So I sing to those equals in wonder,
Of BRADSHAW (the expert on trains),
Who have torn the Hun's fiction asunder--
That our City's a mass of remains;
Here's our proof that we're plainly not undone,
That, although every night she lies hid,
Our stolid undaunted old London
Still stands where she did.

* * * * *

[Illustration: _Porter_ (_dug-out_). "Shall I put yer 'ockey-knockers in
the van, Sir?"]

* * * * *

STUDIES IN FRUSTRATION.

I.

The scene was the comfortable spacious breakfast-room in the Bishop's
Palace. His lordship sat nearest to the fire; the bishop's wife presided
over the fragrant coffee-pot