The Baron is taking it easy.  He has still by his side as his constant travelling companion, GEORGE MEREDITH’s One of Our Conquerors, which has travelled to Switzerland with him, and was only left behind at the inn when the Baron had to go by a new route up a lofty mountain.  To make this path known the Baron’s assent was necessary, and he gave it.  He had time, however, to read one shilling thrilling story.  The Shilling Thrilling is by two authors, WALTER POLLOCK and ALEXANDER GALT, and is called Between the Lines.  A happy title, as it enables the Baron to recommend everyone to read between the lines.  A clever sensation story for which the Baron, now far away in his sea-girt home, thanks the two clever boys who wrote it.  No more at present from

THE BARON DE BOOK-WORMS & Co.

Peak Castle, Eagle’s Nest, N.E.W.

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VOX ET PRAETEREA NIHIL!

    “Philosophy is essentially the Voice of the Silence.”—­A
    Disciple of the Mahatmas.

  Voice of the Silence?  Brotherhood prodigious,
    A babble-ridden age might well rejoice
  Could you but give instead of talk litigious,
    The Silence of the Voice.

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“REAL MEAN.”—­The English Churchman, who, on returning from abroad, puts all his surplusage of Swiss silver—­ten and twenty centime-pieces—­into the offertory bag or plate.

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SHAKSPEARE (ADAPTED) AT THE TRADES UNION CONGRESS.—­“We must Vote by the Card, or Equality will be our undoing.”

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NOTICE.—­Rejected Communications or Contributions, whether MS., Printed Matter, Drawings, or Pictures of any description, will in no case be returned, not even when accompanied by a Stamped and Addressed Envelope, Cover, or Wrapper.  To this rule there will be no exception.