... . AN incident of which we were a spectator the other day set us thinking. Y and Z had a score of 20, in the third game of the rubber. Z dealt and opened the bidding with one diamond. A (on his left) declared one spade upon six to the knave and not another card worth men tioning. Y, who had king, queen to four diamonds, ace, king to six clubs, the king of hearts guarded, and a single spade, ...

... . By J. R. de HAVILLAND. I HAVE always bean a fisherman; that is, ever since I read The Compleat Angler, where Venator and Piscator foregather over a jug ot ale, and the milkmaids sing old-fashioned songs to Isaac and his pupil before breakfast. It may subserve the interests ot trutn it i say mai, until 1 met Clara my knowledge was purely theoretical and limited to what may be acquired from ...

... THE PITFALLS 0# FICTION. A correspoxhent writes I wish you would ask Rapier to rend and explain the first two chapters of Disraeli's Sybil, which deal with the eve and the day of the Derby of 1857. In a vast and golden saloon that in its decorations would have become, and in its splendour would not have disgraced, Versailles in the days of the grand monarch were assembled many young ...

... . By Walter H. Holton. No picture of peaceful Broadland would be complete without a wherry. The graceful run of its lines and the huge high-peaked tan sail swinging well above the stocky, gaily painted mast, driving the squat, clean-cut bows with a hiss and a bubble along the shimmering reaches, make it one of the most picturesque craft in the world, while the brilliant splashes of colour ...