NOT A QUESTION AT ISSUE.
["Mr. Gosse holds a middle station between the older and the younger schools of criticism. He is neither a distinguished and respectable fossil nor a wild and whirling catherine-wheel."—Athenæum.]
Oh, luckiest of Critics! What
A joy unquestioning to feel
On such authority he's not
"A wild and whirling catherine-wheel."
And is it such a wild idea
To think that clever Mr. Gosse'll
Rejoice he's reckoned not to be a