6 JULY 1889, page 18

The Political Function Of Wit And Humour. T Ltrning Over A

little volume which has just been pub- lished in illustration of our political wit and humour,*— a very hasty and inadequate illustration of it as any one may see who examines......

Blue-rose Melancholy.

(117R readers, even the middle-aged among them, are a little too young to recollect a weakness which once infected cultivated society, and was delicately ridiculed by Miss......