no draughts, and if there is a good lunch in a comfortable, dry,
well-aired, and warmed room, with not too many guests, and plenty of
good waiters, also with dry champagne,--say Pommery '80 or '84, for
choice,--then you may expect me, and I accept, with the greatest
possible pleasure.

Yours ever, D. DASH."

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[Illustration: TWELFTH-NIGHT DRAWINGS FOR FATHER TIME.

(_Shadows of the Past and Coming Forms._)]

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"HONOURS EASY!"

(_OMITTED FROM THE NEW YEAR'S LIST LAST WEEK._)

Sir F. LEIGHTON, Bart., P.R.A., to be raised to the Peerage as the
Earl of BURLINGTON, in order to adorn the House of Lords.

Mr. HENRY IRVING, to be Lord LYCÆUM, to please Baron BEEFSTEAK.

Mr. J.L. TOOLE, to be Baron BEEFSTEAK, to satisfy Lord LYCÆUM.

Miss FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, to be Lady REDCROSS OF GENEVA; because she
earned it nearly forty years ago.