The merits of a spotless shirt,

A dapper boot, a little hand,

If half the little soul is dirt? . . .

A Timon you! Nay, nay, for shame!

It looks too arrogant a jest—

That fierce old man, to take his name,

You bandbox! Off, and let him rest!

Alfred Tennyson.

SORROWS OF WERTHER

WERTHER had a love for Charlotte