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[Illustration: PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN "BREAKING IN" HIS
SHOOTING-BOOTS.]

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"GRATITUDE--A SENSE OF FAVOURS TO COME."--Mr. SWINBURNE unexpectedly
says a good word for the much be-mocked BOWDLER. "No man (he says),
ever did better service to SHAKSPEARE than the man who made it
possible to put him into the hands of intelligent and imaginative
children." Can Mr. SWINBURNE be "proticipating" the period when
another BOWDLER may be called upon to do a similar "service" for the
author of _Poems and Ballads?_

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[Illustration: FRENCH AND ENGLISH.

(_As zey are Spoke at ze Country 'Ouse._)

_Hostess_. "OH--ER--J'ESPAIR KER VOOS AVVY TROOVY
VOTRE--VOTRE--ER--ER--VOTRE _COLLAR STUD_, BARRONG?"

_M. le Baron_. "OH, I ZANK YOU, YES! I FIND 'EEM ON MY _CHEST OF
TROWSERS_!"]

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