K.
Wealthy Parvenu (showing acquaintance his house, "ancestors," etc.). "Ah! an' they're all tip-top an' pre-war, mind yer."
ELEGIA MACCHERONICA.
[We print as it reaches us this strange incoherent ejaculatory effusion, signed "A Lover of the Old Italian Opera." With the general spirit of this valediction it is possible to feel a certain amount of sympathy, but the author is clearly inaccurate in including amongst the bygone glories of the institution which he deplores places, persons, musical and even culinary features which are by no means obsolete. We confess also to grave misgiving as to the purity of the writer's style, which in some lines seems to smack more of the debased Anglo-Italian of Soho than the crystal-clarity of the Tuscan of Carducci.]
O tempi passati!—
Pagani, Frascati,
Mascagni, Sgambati—