THE RESULT OF TOO MUCH GREEK
First Classic: "By the way, hadn't Dante got another Name?"
Second Classic: "Yes; Alfieri, I think—or else Alighieri."
First Classic: "Ah, perhaps you're right. I had a notion it was Gabriel Rossetti, or something!"
At the beginning of this period Punch undoubtedly showed a good deal of mistrust of the new methods of elementary education, in so far as they encouraged literary aspirations among the masses and tended to convert the artisan into the clerk. At its close he strikes a different and decidedly more democratic note in his ironical proposed "inscription for a Free Public Library" under the heading, "Laissez Faire":—
Here is an Institution doomed to scare
The furious devotees of Laissez Faire.
What mental shock, indeed, could prove immenser
To Mumbo Jumbo—or to Herbert Spencer?
Free Books? Reading provided from the Rates?