NAME! NAME!
The example of Mr. 'Enry Hauthor Jones, in dropping the Jones and sticking to the 'Enry Hauthor, will probably be followed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones, who will henceforth figure as Sir Edward Burn. Pity this idea never occurred to the renowned architect, Inigo Jones. How much nobler to remain in the annals of your country simply as "Inigo."
Isn't "Jones" a Welsh name? Will Cambria disown Jones? Oh, let the dramatist pause before it be too late. 'Tis true that "a Jones by any other name will write as well," but he has written well enough as our own "'Enry Hauthor," and we beseech him to spare his family tree, not to lop off a single bough, and to remain Jones till the last act is over, and the curtain descends to general applause. We can understand an author of the name of "Dam" changing his name, or altering it to "Grandam," but that Jones, successful, jubilant Jones, should do this thing! Nay, by our halidom! Let us give H. A. J. our own immortal advice, which applies as well to a person about to change his name as to a person about to marry—"Don't!"
Minor Critic on Minor Poet.
This Minor Poet is an ass,
As is the common way of them.
They're "fleshly," and "all flesh is grass";
And—that's why we "make hay of them"!