Philistine Art may stand all critic shocks
Whilst it gives Private Views—of Pretty Frocks!
THE WORLD ON WHEELS.
MR. STEVENS, the American gentleman who rode round the world on a bicycle, says, "The bicycle is now recognised as a new social force." Possibly. But certain writers to the Times on "The Tyranny of the Road," seem to prove that it is also a new anti-social force, when it frightens horses and upsets pedestrians. Adapting an old proverb, we may say, "Set a cad on a cycle and he'll ride"—well, all over the road, and likely enough over old ladies into the bargain. Whilst welcoming the latest locomotive development, we must not allow the "new social force" to develop into a new social despotism. To put it pointedly:—
We welcome these new steeds of steel,
(In spite of whistles and of "squealers,")
But cannot have the common weal
Too much disturbed by common "Wheelers"!