By a Tired and Cynical Critic of Current Fiction.
A "School for Novelists," they say, has risen.
A School? What's really wanted is a Prison.
Life-long confinement far from pen and ink
Might cure the crowd of fictionists, I think.
Or, if by Lessons you'd arrest the blight,
Go teach the Novelist how not to write!
ATHLETICS.—It is said that the County Council are resolved to forbid the popular feats of raising heavy weights, upon the ground that it may lead to shoplifting.