O sir,—­Pleese don’t let us ave no nasty railwaies and tunels in Kinsinton Gardins, were we now are so skludid, and the childern can play about, an no danger from nothink sep dogs, wich is mosley musseled, or led with a string, an we ain’t trubbled about them, an can ave a word to say to a frend, or a cuzzin, you unnerstan, unner the treeses, so nice an quite, wich it wold not be wen disterbd by ingins, an smoke, skreeges, an steem-wizzels.  O, Mr. P., don’t let um do it.

Yours obeegentlee, Sara Jane, (Unner Nursrymade.)

III.

Sir,—­The Railway underneath Kensington Gardens won’t be noticed if only taken down deep enough below the surface.  No blow-holes, of course.  No disfigurement.  Take it under the centre path, where there are no trees, then turn to the left outside the gate and burrow away to S. Kensington Station.  I can then get across the park in three minutes for a penny; and now I have to walk, for which I haven’t the time, or take a cab, for which I haven’t the money.

Yours, A practical pauper.

IV.

Sir,—­I take this opportunity of pointing out that if anything at all is to be done with Kensington Gardens, why not make a real good Rotten Row there? That would he a blessing and a convenience.  We’re all so sick and tired of that squirrel-in-a-cage ride, round and round Hyde Park, and that half-and-half affair in St. James’s Park.  No, Sir; now’s the time, and now’s the hour.  There’s plenty of space for all equestrian wants, without interfering with the sylvan delights of nurserymaids, children, lovers of nature, and all sorts of lovers too.  For my part, if this is not put forward as an alternative scheme, I shall vote for tunnelling under the Gardens out of simple cussedness.  If the reply, authoritatively given, be that the two schemes can go and must go together, then I will vote for both, only let’s have the equestrian arrangement first.

Yours, JOLTIN Trott,

Mount, Street, W, Captain 1st Lights and Liver Brigade.

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The triumph of Black and white.

“After all, the best of KEENE’s life-work is to be found in the innumerable cuts which he contributed to Punch during a period of nearly forty years; and still more in the originals of these, the masterly pen-and-ink drawings which are now for the first time shown in a collected form to the Public.”

So says Mr. Claude Phillips, in his “Prefatory Note,” to the “Catalogue of a Collection of Drawings of the late Charles Keene,” now on view at the Rooms of the Fine Arts Society, 148, New Bond Street.