Proofs before Letters.
Humbugs will always ape their betters,
Fools fancy the alphabet brings them fame;
But you don't become a man of letters
By tacking the letters after your name.
One suffix only the fact expresses,
And that's an A and a couple of S's!
Another Meaning.—I Rantzau is the title of Mascagni's new Opera. The title, anglicised, would be suitable for an old-fashioned transpontine melodramatic tragedian, who could certainly say of himself, "I rant so!"