o pigmento maculaturos, ni liberentur. egressis
claudit portas Reginensis sacerdos, metu an conscientia dubium: nec non
Brigantes quamquam civili bello distracti struxere vallum et loricam
hostem arcendi. igitur utrinque exclusi palantur in viis Mauri:
procurtoribus grata ea species nomina et collegii genus per ludibrium
percunctantibus. mox ab Omnianimensibus propter mediocritatem doctrinae
consimilibus hospitio accipiuntur: et inter socios conscribi concessum.
ibi per speciem cruditatis interfecti. aula in formam provinciae
redacta. nec enim magis iustis indiciis unquam adprobatum est, non esse
curae Vice-Cancellario securitatem bonorum, esse exstinctionem.

THE JOURNALISTIC TOUCH {24}
(I.) THE TRUE TALE OF TROY

(It is perhaps not generally known that the _Daily Hieroglyphic_, one of
the leading morning papyri of Egypt under the --th Dynasty, despatched a
special correspondent to Greece at the time of the Trojan War. Some
fragments of his communications have been discovered by the energy of
modern tomb-robbers, and the courtesy of the British Museum has enabled
us to publish these _disjecta membra_, which may perhaps be of interest
to the public at the present juncture.)

The only social _evenement_ (writes the correspondent under date Jan. 10,
1100 B.C., or thereabouts) which I have to chronicle is a reported
domestic _esclandre_ in the family of Menelaus, the genial and popular
Prince of Sparta. In consequence of this the Princess Helena, it is
alleged, has gone to Paris.

Mycenae, January 12.

It appears from the _Court Circular_ that Her Royal Highness has been
advised by her physicians to reside for some time in Asia Minor. At the
same time I cannot conceal the fact that the Corinthian society paper,
_Alethea_, mentions the name of a Trojan prince in connexion with this
story. I am naturally unwilling to make myself the mouthpiece of
scandal.

February 1.

The fact can no longer be disguised that grave international
complications are likely to arise between Troy and Mycenae. It is stated
on the highest authority that the Argive ambassador has been recalled
from the former capital, the alleged reason being promotion to a still
higher diplomatic post: there seems, however, to be no reasonable doubt
that the practical rupture of relations between the Empires of the West
and