OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.
James the First, of America, not to be confounded even by his enemies with the Old or Young Pretender, is bringing out his book entitled, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, which line represents only a third of the entire title.The celebrated Butterfly signature flitters and flutters from leaf to leaf throughout the book, which in itself, in its binding, print, and arrangement, is a work of Art of which the publishers, Messrs. Heinemann, may be justly proud, and which must rejoice the soul of James Primus Americanus, Ex-President, R.S.B.A.
The Baron has great pleasure in drawing attention—(he is gifted is the Baron, "drawing" as well as writing, you'll observe)—to a rare specimen of the Papilio Whistleriensis which adorns this paragraph, and hopes, on another occasion, to have a few remarks to offer on the many genuine Jacobean epistles contained in this dainty volume which is issued, as the short preface informs us, under the Ex-P.R.B.A.'s "immediate care and supervision," and as a counterblast from Le Siffleur against "a spurious and garbled version" of his writings already put into circulation. It was about time for Jacques Le Siffleur to come out for a blow; which blow it is more blessed to give than to receive, dicit the Baron de Book-Worms.