24 JUNE 1865, Page 19

Stone Talk. By Frank Baker, D.O.N. (Robert Hardwicke.)— Dr. Polyglott

goes out to dinner and gets tipsy. In that state he imagines one of the paving-stones to address him in doggrol. The whole composition suggests the idea that this is literally true, and charity would suggest that the intoxication must have continued till after the publication.