"I wonder why he's so Black, Mummy? I suppose he was Born in the Dark!"


"PITY THE POOR ARTIST!"

["I have had occasion to speak on the difficulties of a minister who finds himself pledged to a very large and extensive programme, to each point of which programme there is a large circle of adherents who consider it the foremost and the preeminently important point."—Lord Rosebery.]

Westminster Pavement Artist loquitur:

Who would be a political "screever"? A drudge

Foredoomed to designing, and destined to smudge,

Like impressionist painters of posters?

Art's in a rum way. Lor! what humbug it is!

Far better the days of old Cruikshank and Phiz,