"The bulged and the bruised octavos, The dear and the dumpy twelves" I become like those initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries who, as Cicero tells us, have attained "the art of living joyfully and of dying with a fairer hope.

The Gaiety Theatre performed its celebrated nightly musical comedy, "House Full"; and at Queen's Hall quite a large audience was collected to listen to a violinist aged twelve, who played like a man, though a little one, and whose services had been bought for seven years by a limited company.

"Deliveredhereabout half-past twelve.

"Really?" She was thoroughly enjoying herself when the brazen-mouthed clock twanged twelve.

It is broken now, this silence, by the church-clock with slow wakefulness chiming twelve.