Lyre and Lancet: A Story in Scenes

by F. Anstey

LYRE AND LANCET
A STORY IN SCENES

BY
F. ANSTEY
AUTHOR OF
"VICE VERSÂ," "THE GIANT'S ROBE," "VOCES POPULI," ETC.

LONDON:
SMITH, ELDER & CO., 15, WATERLOO PLACE.
1895.
(All rights reserved.)

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Reprinted from "Punch" by permission of the Proprietors.

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CONTENTS

PART		PAGE
I.	[Shadows cast Before]	1
II.	[Select Passages from a Coming Poet]	11
III.	[The Two Andromedas]	21
IV.	[Rushing to Conclusions]	31
V.	[Cross Purposes]	42
VI.	[Round Pegs in Square Holes]	53
VII.	[Ignotum pro Mirifico]	64
VIII.	[Surprises—Agreeable and Otherwise]	76
IX.	[The Mauvais Quart d'Heure]	87
X.	[Borrowed Plumes]	98
XI.	[Time and the Hour]	109
XII.	[Dignity Under Difficulties]	119
XIII.	[What's in a Name?]	130
XIV.	[Le Vétérinaire Malgré Lui]	141
XV.	[Trapped!]	152
XVI.	[An Intellectual Privilege]	163
XVII.	[A Bomb Shell]	174
XVIII.	[The Last Straw]	184
XIX.	[Unearned Increment]	194
XX.	[Different Persons have Different Opinions]	204
XXI.	[The Feelings of a Mother]	213
XXII.	[A Descent from the Clouds]	224
XXIII.	[Shrinkage]	234
XXIV.	[The Happy Dispatch]	244

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CHARACTERS