Mr. GALSWORTHY has also been turning his attention to the Ark, and the inhumane congestion of the creatures that were packed into it.  The result should be a very interesting psychological and sociological work, the leading character being HAM’S wife, whom the novelist figures as a protester to her father-in-law against his treatment of all the animals, but in particular of the two Pekinese spaniels.

Mr. ALEC WAUGH has nearly completed an indictment of private tuition based on the story of SAMUEL and ELI.

Mr. H.B.  IRVING, turning aside for the moment from the study of more recent turpitude, is preparing an analytical memoir on the first murder, that of ABEL by CAIN.  With all his well-known thoroughness he reconstructs the crime and shows in what particulars CAIN, although an innovator, proved himself also an adept.

Mr. GEORGE MOORE is meditating a revised version of the story of JOSEPH and his Brethren, which in his opinion is sadly in need of re-writing, suffering as it does from an unsophisticated simplicity of diction and thought.

Mr. CONRAD is busy with a new romance treating of JONAH and the whale, in which, for the sake of verisimilitude, JONAH will himself recount his strange adventure to a few personal friends.  As the narrative runs to over a hundred thousand words the reader may be sure that no detail of realism is omitted from the description of the luckless voyage.

Mrs. ELINOR GLYN’S new novel will be called The Heart of Solomon.

The movie-producers are not idle.  After the greatest difficulty in procuring an actor of prophetic mien willing to undertake the rather trying part of DANIEL, an intrepid dompteur has been found in France and the story of the Lions’ Den is to be filmed at once.  Possibly some assistance from the drug whose power was illustrated by Mr. GEORGE MORROW in last week’s Punch may be called for.

Meanwhile a company is being formed for the exploitation of a new system of muscular development under the name of “Samsonism,” and a powerful company of public men is being enlisted to write daily articles in its praise.

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ANOTHER IMPENDING APOLOGY.

    “London’s Premier Turn Coat Specialist.”—­Advt. in Daily
    Paper.

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“Writers, mostly town-bred, infatuated with the country-side, have raved of the statuesque repose of the rural maiden.  A statute is no doubt a beautiful object, but you do not want to take it to a dance.”—­Daily Paper.

We shouldn’t, but the LORD CHANCELLOR might.

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AT THE PLAY.

“THE HOUSE OF PERIL.”