Right little he bodeth of Fortune's dark frown.
But the Ferryman's old, and the Ferryman knows
That River of Years, with its joys and its woes;
But we'll wish the young fare a snug seat in Time's wherry,
And sun on his way, though he starts 'midst the snows.
O-hoi-ye-ho, Ho-ye-ho, Ho-ye-ho-Ho!!
THE WINTER ACADEMY OF 1995.
(An Elegant Extract from a Future Development.)
The Committee this year has wisely been recruited from the Master Bill Posters' Guild; the old-fashioned method of "hanging" is abandoned, and advertisements are now "stuck" on the walls by the New "B" Gum Process (for which Sir J. Millboard contributes a charming illustration No. 20,000). During a preliminary survey, we were astonished by the blatant excellence of the exhibition. "A Bicycle Made for Five," by Mr. Lowther R. Cade (No. 2006), is especially delicate and sudden; the tone is aluminium throughout, and although no children are represented as bodily on the machine, a Kineto-Phonograph inserted in the axle dexterously responds to a penny in the slot—when the youthful athletes are both seen and heard in the adjacent horse-pond. "Gregory the Grateful" (No. 612) fully sustains Dr. Utterson's reputation for historical advertisement; by pressing a spring the Pope actually swallows the powder, and seems to like it. It is quite equal to this Master's "Columbus in Wall Street" of last year. Mr. G. Morland's "Carter's Pill-gathering in the Old Kent Road" (No. 69) is too realistic for modern taste; the fine oaks in the background are absolutely hidden by placards; but Lord Boxall's "While there is Life there is Soap" (No. 15,000z) is truly impressionist; the life is full of soap, and the soap full of life. In "Glycerine" (unnumbered), by Miss Topsy Turvy (the Presidentess), we have a fine example of "The Newer Symbolism,"—a patent revolving motor displays its liquidity to equal advantage upside down.