With minstrelsy made perfect, throws a cord
That rings the continents in its magic reach
To gather all who share his English speech
In one firm warrior bond of troth and truth.

* * * * *

"LET LAWS AND LEARNING..."

"I should add that Viscount Harberton sees a chance for his own
order in the circumstance that, while the poor man's child is
driven to school by the inspector, the rich man can 'boot the
spy out,' and so confer on his children the priceless boon of
complete illiteracy. Shall we live to see a House of Lords that
makes its mark?"--_Observer._

Some of them, we believe, are under the impression that they have done
so already.

* * * * *

OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

(_By Mr. Punch's Staff of Learned Clerks._)

Unless you can share with me the sad immunity of the forties, I must
despair of translating for you the emotion raised in my antique soul by
the wrapper of a new RIDER HAGGARD story bearing the picture of a Zulu
and the discovery inside that _Quatermain_ is come again! The tale that
has so excited me is called, a little ominously, _Finished_ (WARD,