As Broad as Long.
First Critic. Shortness now rules in Novel and in Song,
Which, like men's clothes, are cut and made to order.
Second Critic. It may be Tale and Lay are now less long,
But they make up for it by growing broader.
Sporting Paradox.—Rosebery was more of a "favourite" when he was an "outsider." Perhaps, like his Sir Visto, when an outsider again—which he seems likely soon to be—he will be safer to back for a "place," if not for an absolute win.
Best Solution of Ministerial Difficulties.—Dissolution.