"Happy Home offered slight Mental Youth or otherwise."—Times.

A chance for one of our slim conscientious objectors.


LINES ON RE-READING "BLEAK HOUSE."

There was a time when, posing as a purist,

I thought it fine to criticise and crab

CHARLES DICKENS as a crude caricaturist,

Who laid his colours on too thick and slab,

Who was a sort of sentimental tourist