A volume most welcome on table or desk
Is DAVENPORT ADAMS's Book of Burlesque.
He deals with the subject from earliest days,
To modern examples and Gaiety plays.
We've extracts from PLANCHÉ and GILBERT to hand,
With puns ta'en from BYRON and jokes from BURNAND.
There's fun at your asking wherever you look,
And not a dull page you'll declare in the book.
You'll find it delightful, for no one Macadams
The road of the reader like DAVENPORT ADAMS.