CRITICISM

A man must serve his time at ev'ry trade,

Save censure; critics all are ready-made.

—Byron.

Damn with faint praise, assent with evil leer,

And, without sneering, teach the rest to sneer:

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike,

Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.

—Pope.

THE ARTIST—"Dubbins, the art critic, has slated my pictures unmercifully."

HIS FRIEND—"Oh, don't take any notice of that fellow; he has no ideas of his own—he only repeats like a parrot what everybody else is saying."