CLEMENT W. SCOTT.
Many poems written by this distinguished dramatic critic are chosen for recitation, notably “The Women of Mumbles Head” which is to be found in “Lays of a Londoner” (London, Carson and Comerford, 1886.) A very funny parody of this, entitled “The Wreck of the Steamship ‘Puffin,’” is in Burglar Bill, by J. Anstey, and would form an amusing contrast to the original, in the second part of an entertainment.
Another well-known poem by Mr. Clement Scott was the Tale of the Tenth Hussars, in favour of the late Colonel Valentine Baker, which originally appeared in Punch, and was quoted, with a parody on it, on p. 87, vol. iv. Parodies.
The Garden of Sleep.
(With compliments to Messrs. Clement Scott and Isidore de Lara)
There’s a crib in Whitechapel is used by a heap,
An’ the deppity calls it ’is Garden o’ Sleep!
Where the Heast Hend hexotics are bloomin’ in rows,