"And what about Bach?" she asked. "Is he composing nowadays?"
"No, ma'am," answered Gilbert; "he is decomposing!"—Tit-Bits.
IN A STREET CAR.
Blodgett—You see that homely woman hanging to that strap?
Foster—How do you know she is homely? You can't see her face.
Blodgett—I can see she is hanging to a strap.—Boston Transcript.
Poems by Dickens and Thackeray.
Verses from the Pen of Two of England's Most Celebrated
Novelists.
With the notable exception of Sir Walter Scott, no writer of English novels has attained any marked distinction as a poet. But like men engaged in hundreds of other occupations, celebrated novelists have at times succumbed to the allurements of the muse, and have offered some of their thoughts to the world through the medium of verse. Among these were Dickens and Thackeray.