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Rh These two, with other poems, appeared in his last collection, to which he gave the title "In Bohemia." Another Papyrus president, Col. T. A. Dodge, son of the first of that royal line, visited geographical Bohemia a few years ago, and brought home as a trophy for the club a beautiful silver salver, on which is engraved in Bohemian and English characters the text, "I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land."

Another ex-president, the distinguished author, Mr. Francis H. Underwood, had been appointed United States Consul to Glasgow, and his departure was celebrated by a dinner at "Taft's," in Boston Harbor, on August 5. O'Reilly wrote an amusing farewell poem for the occasion, of which a few extracts will show the character:

When men possess one secret or one creed, Or love one land, or struggle for one need, They draw together brotherly and human— (Those only fly apart who love one woman). So we, with one dear picture in our heart Draw closer still with years, and grieve to part.

And now, old Glasgow totters to its fall, And Underwood is called to prop the wall. We smile to him—and we congratulate The Nation that has stolen a march on Fate. We say to him: O Brother, go ye forth, And bear good tidings to the misty North: Show them to write a book or taste a dish, To sell a cargo or to cook a fish: Teach them that scholars can be guides of trade, When men of letters are our consuls made; That those who write what all acknowledge true Can act as well when duty calls to do. And when they cry with wonder: "What a man!" Answer: "Go to! I am no other than A simple citizen from out the Hub, A member of the quaint Papyrus Club!",

Some dreamer called the earth an apple—well, The Celt dares all the cycles have to tell: