"The balloon immediately began to drift over the enemy's lines. Although he threw his rifle, field glasses, and everything movable overboard, the balloon went still higher."
Continental Daily Mail.
Well, what did he expect?
"Apprentice.—Smart Lad to learn up-to-date business; must be mechanically bent."
Liverpool Echo.
The simple plan of putting him across your knee will not suffice.
From a review of Sir Charles Waldstein's Aristodemocracy in an evening paper:—
"That, however, is only a side-issue in a volume which treats the provident questions of politics with perfect humility and with much persecution. It is a book which, as we began by saying, deserves a much better title."
Some people might even say that it deserved a better reviewer.