(_On the Humdrum Budget._)
Just "As you were"! Ingenious, fair,
And all that, I've no doubt;
But titled swells you do not scare,
Nor rich monopolists flout.
I tolerate where I would praise.
Reform _is_ a slow grower!
_My_ spirits, WILL, it will not raise,
To see _your_ spirits lower!
Free Breakfast Table? Graduation?--
Chances seem getting fewer:
Well WILL, my only consolation
Is this--you've "copped the brewer!"
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In the title of his new book, "ANTHONY HOPE" has taken the Roman
_prénom_ which evidently by right belonged to him. There is no comma,
nor introduction of "by," and so straight off we read in golden
letters on the back, "_A Man of Mark Anthony Hope_." O Brave MARK
ANTHONY! His readers have great faith in HOPE.
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PARLIAMENTARY.--The nearest approach to a dead-lock is a live (J. G.)
WEIR.
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