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 again has taught us) will haunt Pall Mall, S.W. in fancy, and suppose him­self, with an awed surmise, a full-blooded member of the Athenæum or of the Army and Navy Club.

I doubt, if Mr. Rackham has ever illustrated such an achievement as that; yet feel sure that he would do it justice, so whole-heartedly he will be a child and play with any child in its mood. Quicquid agunt pueri Someone, criticising him adversely the other day (as we shall none of us escape censure), suggested that “it was not very funny, after all, to draw people with long noses.” To this I answer, “Not very funny in our eyes, perhaps—though quite a large number of grown-ups have laughed at Cyrano de Bergerac; but very funny indeed, or at any rate highly interesting, to the unsophisticated