Fritteric Lacquer.

Time, June, 1880.

——:o:——

On Frederick Locker.

Of Locker what? Apollo in the fashion.

Humour and pathos suits, no touch of passion.

From Suckling, Lovelace, Prior, Luttrell, Praed,

Locker inherits his inspiring Maid:

Not nude and passionate, not fast and flighty,

Like Swinburne’s rosy-bosomed Aphrodite;