"PAS MÊME ACADÉMICIEN!"
[Albert Moore, the exquisite decorative painter, died on September 25, at the age of fifty-two, "without Academic honour.">[
"Love is enough." Beauty, it seems, is not.
And yet upon our land's artistic fame,
It seems—does it not, Sirs?—a bitter blot
That the official roll lacks this great name!
No matter! The R. A., with tight-closed door,
Hath less—of honour; English Art hath Moore.
"Did you hear Paderewski the pianist?" asked someone of our old friend Mrs. R. "Oh, yes," she replied; "I was most fortunate. He played for several hours at a friend's house, and he gave us the whole of his Repartee."
Riddle by 'Arry.—"Look 'ere, if you're speakin' of a young unmarried lady bein' rather 'uffy, what well-known river would you name?—Why, 'Miss is 'ippy', o' course."
