De libris : prose & verse . that book by Mr. Boz, youknowâOld Poz ; when I was a girlâbut thats along time agoâI acted Lucy in Old Poz Therecan be no mistake. Lucy is the justices daughterin Miss Edgeworths little chamber-drama. A PLEASANT INVECTIVE AGAINSTPRINTING »7 A PLEASANT INVECTIVE AGAINSTPRINTING Flee fro the Pkuks, and dvvcUc witli sotlitastncsse.â Chaucer, Balade Je Bon Con set I. The Press is too much with us, small and great : We are undone ot chatter and on dit. Report, retort, rejoinder, repartee, Mole-hill and mares nest, fiction up-to-date. Babble of booklets, bicker of debate
De libris : prose & verse . that book by Mr. Boz, youknowâOld Poz ; when I was a girlâbut thats along time agoâI acted Lucy in Old Poz Therecan be no mistake. Lucy is the justices daughterin Miss Edgeworths little chamber-drama. A PLEASANT INVECTIVE AGAINSTPRINTING »7 A PLEASANT INVECTIVE AGAINSTPRINTING Flee fro the Pkuks, and dvvcUc witli sotlitastncsse.â Chaucer, Balade Je Bon Con set I. The Press is too much with us, small and great : We are undone ot chatter and on dit. Report, retort, rejoinder, repartee, Mole-hill and mares nest, fiction up-to-date. Babble of booklets, bicker of debate, Aspect of A., and attitude of B.â A waste of words that drive us like a sea, Mere derelict of Ourselves, and helpless freight ! O for a lodge in some vast wilderness ! Some region unapproachable of Print,W^here never cablegram could gain access,And telephones were not, nor any hintOf tidings new or old, but Man might pipeHis soul to Nature,âcareless of the Type ! 8s TWO MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS 01 â ^^^ ^J^. GROUP OF CHILDREN, FOR THE LIBRARY.(From the original pen-drawing.) TWO MODERN BOOK ILLUSTRATORS I. Kate Greenaway In the world of pictorial recollection there are manyterritories, the natives of which you may recogniseby their characteristics as surely as Ophelia recognisesher true-love bv his cockle-hat and sandal is the land of grave gestures and courteousinclinations, of dignified leave-takings and decorousgreetings ; where the ladies (like RichardsonsPamela) don the most charming round-eared capsand frilled negliges ; where the gentlemen sportruffles and bag-wigs and spotless silk stockings, andinvariably exhibit shapely calves above their silvershoe-buckles ; where you may come in St. JamessPark upon a portly personage with a star, taking analfresco pinch of snuff after that leisurely style inwhich a pinch of snuff should be taken, so as not toendanger a lace cravat or a canary-coloured vest ;where you may scat yourself on a bench byRosamonds l^
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