SIR GEORGE AND THE DRAG ON.
By a Writer of Books.
[Sir GEORGE TREVELYAN, speaking to the Institute of Journalists, said that "No one was under the obligation of writing books, unless he was absolutely called to do so by a commanding genius.">[
Oh! tell me quickly—not if Planet Mars
Is quite the best for journalistic pars,
Not if the cholera will play Old Harry,
Not why to-day young men don't and won't marry—
For these I do not care. Not to dissemble,
My pen is, as they say, "all of a tremble"—