Ineffable Youth: "I don't care about Naytchah, and hate Perspective. The Picktchah is most beautiful!"
Matter-of-fact Party (losing all self-control): "But, dash it all, man, where the dickens is the beauty, then?"
Ineffable Youth (quietly): "In the Picktchah!"
Total defeat of Matter-of-fact Party.
It is true that Punch makes some reservations in his "Moral":—
Critics are full of "cussedness," omniscience sometimes slips,
And even triune Oracles may chance to miss their tips.
But his sympathies undoubtedly remain with the critics, and he virtually identifies himself with Philistia in the plea of the Philistine in the following year:—
Take away all your adornments æsthetical,