Is uncommonly attractive in a democratic age.

"Balfour Must Go!" was once the cry of those who deemed him slack,

But now there's not a single scribe of that unruly pack

Who is not glad in every sense that Balfour has come back.

And as for his "successor"—the Napoleonic peer

Whose functions are restricted to a purely business sphere—

We must try to bear his absence in a spirit of good cheer.


THE INFANTICIDE.