)
Philistine Art may stand all critic shocks
Whilst it gives Private Views--of Pretty Frocks!
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THE WORLD ON WHEELS.
MR. STEVENS, the American gentleman who rode round the world on a
bicycle, says, "The bicycle is now recognised as a new social force."
Possibly. But certain writers to the _Times_ on "The Tyranny of the
Road," seem to prove that it is also a new _anti_-social force, when
it frightens horses and upsets pedestrians. Adapting an old proverb,
we may say, "Set a cad on a cycle and he'll ride"--well, all over
the road, and likely enough over old ladies into the bargain. Whilst
welcoming the latest locomotive development, we must not allow the
"new social force" to develop into a new social despotism. To put it
pointedly:--
We welcome these new steeds of steel,
(In spite of whistles and of "squealers,")
But cannot have the common weal
_Too_ much disturbed by common "Wheelers"!
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THE ROYAL ACADEMY BANQUET.--After the Presidential orations, the
success of the evening was Professor BUTCHER's speech. His audience
were delighted at being thus "butchered to make" an artistic
"holiday." Prince ARTHUR BALFOUR expressed his regret that "the House
of Commons did not possess a Hanging Committee.
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