00, and I do
so want to be persuaded I am. It is a great pity," she sighed, "that
you who convicted Warren Hastings of stealing such enormous wealth
cannot be quite as eloquent to-day as you were in the Oudh speech, and
convince me his arraigner has been equally rapacious!"

"I mean to prove as much--with time," said Mr. Sheridan. His breathing
was yet perfunctory.

Miss Ogle murmured, "And how long would you require?"

"Why, I intend, with your permission, to devote the remainder of my
existence to the task. Eh, I concede that space too brief for any
adequate discussion of the topic; but I will try to be concise and very
practical----"

She laughed. They were content. "Try, then----" Miss Ogle said.

She was able to get no farther in the sentence, for reasons which to
particularize would be indiscreet.

A PRINCESS OF GRUB STREET

"_Though--or, rather, because--VANDERHOFFEN was a child of the French
Revolution, and inherited his social, political and religious--or,
rather, anti-religious--views from the French writers of the eighteenth
century, England was not ready for him and the unshackled individualism
for which he at first contended. Recognizing this fact, he turned to
an order of writing begotten of the deepest popular needs and addressed
to the best intelligence of the great middle classes of the community._"

Now emperors bide their times' rebuff
I would not be a king--enough
Of woe it is to love;
The paths of power are steep and rough,
And tempests reign above.

I would not climb the imperial throne;
'Tis built on ice which fortune's sun
Thaws in the height of noon.
Then farewell, kings, that squeak 'Ha' done!'
To time's full-throated tune.

PAUL VANDERHOFFEN.--_Emma and Caroline_.

A PRINCESS OF GRUB STREET

It is questionable if the announcement of the death of their Crown
Prince, Hilary, upon the verge of his accession to the throne, aroused
more than genteel regret among the inhabitants of Saxe-Kesselberg. It
is indisputable that in diplomatic circles news of this horrible
occurrence was indirectly conceded in 1803 to smack of a direct
intervention of Providence. For to consider all the havoc dead Prince
Fribble--such had been his sobriquet--would have created, _Dei gratia_,
through his pilotage of an important grand-duchy (with an area of no
less than eighty-nine square miles) was less discomfortable now
prediction was an ac