The Sporting Sage must qualify in papers on Ruff's Guide.

No doubt your plan is laudable, but then we find it printed

That novelists to manage all the scheme will be allowed,

And since they love reviewers not, it may, perhaps, be hinted,

That every man alive of us is certain to be ploughed!

Moreover, on reflection, quite excusably one fancies

That, if so great advantage in the system you discern,

Its use should be extended to the weavers of romances,

And you and other novelists should suffer in your turn!

And so, if we may venture on a practical suggestion,