2. Secundo loco, docent fraternum amorem inter pueros; quia quum unus socius est stumpatus pro verbo, alius donat illi correctum tippum, sub rosâ.
3. Tertium quid (non quid tobacconis!—Vide effectum, "habitûs contorquendi et vertendi"!)—Versus elevant mentem, et associant nos cum grandibus auctoribus præteriti, ut Ovidio, Tibullo, et Careyo. Quomodo possum noscere, nisi per "Gradum," ut Amor est "dulcis, blandus, jucundus, suavis," et eodem tempore "flagrans, acer, fervidus, indomitus, vigilans," etc.?
4. Quarto, discimus synonymos, sic utiles ad publicos homines (non homines publicanos, intelligis! "Habitus contorquendi" iterum). Si Magister Gladstone non fecisset Latinos versus ut juvenis, non posset nunc donare viginti differentia nomina pro unâ re.
Finaliter, si Latini versus sunt missi ad Jerichonem, ubi erit Ludus Westminsterensis in futuro? Nullum alium argumentum est necessarium.
Maneo tuus,
Anti-bramwellius Academicus.
A Correspondent draws Mr. Punch's attention to an advertisement in a Cheltenham paper, from which this is an extract:—
"Quince Jam.—Prepared from Quinces, supposed by many to be the 'Forbidden Fruit.' This hitherto almost unknown luxury is much appreciated by those who have tried it."
Hasn't the enterprising and, of course, very old-established firm which advertises this luxury any recommendation in writing from "The fairest of her daughters," Eve? If so, let them produce the papyrus.