... No. 198.-- Vol. XVI. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1896. ...

... Why don't you get a new suit, man 1 aitli, I 111 the most ticklish man in all Cork devil a tailor in the place can get the tape round me i} ...

... . By the time these notes are in print I hope to be nearing Nova Scotia, whither business and other matters necessitate my going. During this three months' tour in Canada and in Western America I shall take particular notice of the improvements made in Canadian and in American cycles since last year, at which time the rational costume of the San Francisco cycling Venus was a thing of beauty ...

... . SCENE: BEFORE MUGGLETON'S RESIDENCE. TIME: 2.43 a.m. Muggleton reading Even oil a show visit your overcoat should, be left in the hall hie That '11 b be beashly difficul' an' what about m' bootsh '$s£t*TuEm s ...

... A MORNING BATH. ...

... ESSE f i y J V X No. 199.-- Yol. XYI. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1896. ...

... . SAIHEY GAMP. ...

... . Lucas Malet has put a stumbling-block in the way of her readers' complete appreciation of her new story, The Carissima (Methuen). It is a very able story. Only a very few of our novelists can write so well, and there are pages in it quite worthy of Mr. Henry James. One readily acknowledges that she has treated her subject very cleverly, but a simple reader must be somewhat puzzled as to ...