Than the presence (and paper) amidst the Children of Letters, the
new Grub Street geniuses, the Poets and Press-men and penny-
a-liners, the Sages and "all the rages," the Naturalistic Novelists
and New Humourists, the literary "Strong Men" and Anti-
Sentimentalists, the Impressionists and Symbolists, and Stylists,
and Superior Sniffers, and "Manly" Muse-hunters, and Man-
despising Mugwumps, and Minor Minstrels and Minor-Minstrel-
flouters, and would-be Laureates, and would-be-laureate-exter-
minators, and Mummer-Idolators and Mummer-Iconoclasts, and
Up-to-date Oracles, and Fin-de-siècle obscurantists, of the