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A. Two lines from your favourite "poet" (save the Mark Tapley)!

B. Some wedding-effusions which remind me that Burne-Jones, when they told him that marriage was a lottery, said:

"Then it ought to be made illegal."

While undergoing his rest-cure, he not infrequently communicated with me by means of annotations to the letters which I wrote him. His comments are given in parenthesis.

I went to see As You Like It at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, I wrote, 15. 5. 20. It is a good production but an uncommonly bad play, like so many of that author's. If any dramatist of the present day served up that kind of musical comedy without the music, but with all the existing purple patches, I wonder what your modern critic would make of it.

(Laurence Irving used to go about saying, "Teixeira says that Shakespeare wrote only one decent play: Timon of Athens! Wha-art d'ye think of that? The mun's mud!" Talking of Shakespeare, if you want to laugh, really to laugh, ce qu'on appelle'' to laugh, read (you will never see it acted) a stage-play called Titus Andronicus)''