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 The occasion did not pass without "improvement" by the leading journals; and Philip preserved the editorial comments of three or four of them which pleased him most. These he used to read aloud to his friends afterwards and ask them to guess from which journal each of them had been cut. One began in this simple manner:—

Another journal began its editorial with less lyrical beauty, but with equal force. It closed as follows:—

A third newspaper took up the subject in a different tone. It said:—

A fourth journal began its remarks as follows:—