A CRITERION OF MORALS.--Astutely doing "The Puff Preliminary" in a
letter to the papers before the production of _The Fringe of Society_
(i.e., _Le Demi-monde_ freely adapted), Mr. CHARLES WYNDHAM observes
that "there is no such class, in any recognisable degree, as the
_demi-monde_ in England." "Recognisable" is good, very good, it saves
the situation, as of course the _demi-monde_ is _not_, on any account,
to be recognised. Cheery CHARLES evidently belongs to that half of the
world which never knows what the other half is doing. If _The Fringe_,
as it at first went in to the Licenser, had to be trimmed, CHARLES our
Friend might have announced his latest version as re-"adapted from the
_Fringe_."

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"AILING AND CONVALESCENT,"--ORME. [No others count.]

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MR. PUNCH'S AGRICULTURAL NOVEL.

BO AND THE BLACKSHEEP.

A STORY OF _THE_ SEX.

(By THOMAS OF WESSEX, Author of "Guess how a Murder feels,"
"The Cornet Minor," "The Horse that Cast a Shoe," "One in
a Turret," "The Foot of Ethel hurt her," "The Flight of the
Bivalve," "Hard on the Gadding Crowd," "A Lay o' Deceivers,"
&c.)