Will have given their final gruel to French journalists; a kind
Of cantankerous, rancorous spitfires, blusterous, braggart, boyish, blind,
Who much mourning scarce would find.
Prophet of o'er-population, when the centuries in rotation
Shall have filled our little planet till it tends to running o'er,
Will this world, with souls o'erladen, be a Hades or an Aidenn?
Will man, woman, boy and maiden, be less civilised, or more?
That's the question, RAVENSTEIN! What boots a billion, less or more,
If Man still is fool or boor?
"Seek not to proticipate" is Mrs. Gamp's wise maxim. Great is