APIS MATINA. (H. Pattinson.)

The World. December 17, 1879.


Gladstone in Midlothian.

“Plague upon thee, Earl of B——

Bad luck attend thy servile crew,

Though gull’d awhile, they bend the knee

In worship of a wily Jew!

Inscrutability, nor sham

Veil’d in a wealth of brilliant epigram,