“Well,” said the Student, “what of that?”
“Can you guess what he is writing?” asked Asmodeus.
“That I am quite unable to do,” said the Student.
“It is,” said the Devil, “a series of satirical remarks upon the frailties and follies of others—and yet he is a journalist!”
The Death of the Comic Author
A COMIC Author of deserved repute was lodging at the beginning of this month in a house with broken windows, in a court off the Gray’s Inn Road.
He had undertaken to produce a piece of Humorous Fiction to the length of 75,000 words.