not all working marvelously well? Have not our Flowers
of
Progress more than justified their name?

Fitz.: We have indeed done our best. Captain Corcoran and I
have,
in concert, thoroughly remodeled the sister-services--and
upon so sound a basis that the South Pacific trembles at
the
name of Utopia!

Zara: How clever of you!

Fitz.: Clever? Not a bit. It's easy as possible when the
Admiral-
ty and Horse Guards are not there to interfere. And so
with
the others. Freed from the trammels imposed upon them by
idle Acts of Parliament, all have given their natural
tal-
ents full play and introduced reforms which, even in Eng-
land, were never dreamt of!

Zara: But perhaps the most beneficent changes of all has been
ef-
fected by Mr. Goldbury, who, discarding the exploded
theory
that some strange magic lies hidden in the number Seven,
has
applied the Limited Liability principle to individuals,
and
every man, woman, and child is now a Company Limited with
liability restricted to the amount of his declared
Capital!
There is not a christened baby in Utopia who has not
already
issued his little Prospectus!

Fitz.: Marvelous is the power of a Civilization which can trans-
mute, by a word, a Limited Income into an Income Limited.

Zara: Reform has not stopped here--it has been applied even to
the
costume of our people. Discarding their own barbaric
dress,
the natives of our land have unanimously adopted the
taste-
ful fashions of England in all their rich entirety.
Scaphio
and Phantis have undertaken a contract to supply the
whole
of Utopia with clothing designed upon the most approved
English models--and the first Drawing-Room under the new
state of things is to be held here this evening.

Fitz.: But Drawing-Rooms are always held in the afternoon.

Zara: Ah, we've improved upon that. We all look so much better
by
candlelight! And when I tell you, dearest, that my Court
train has just arrived, you will understand that I am
long-
ing to go and try it on.

Fitz.: Then we must part?

Zara: