. Stories for the household . prose of thy life, if these stories are not exciting enough for thee. Off with her head ! says the sempstress. There sits a figure in a dressing-gown, the Oriental garb of the Northfor young counts, highnesses, rich brewers, and others. It is not easyto judge from the dressing-gown, the look of command, and the polishedsmile, upon what tree he has grown. His aspirations are those of thesempstress—to be excited, aroused, stuffed full of mysteries such as thelate Speiss knew. In Siucden. 943 And Scheherazade is decapitated. Wise, enlightened Sultan, now thou coinest
. Stories for the household . prose of thy life, if these stories are not exciting enough for thee. Off with her head ! says the sempstress. There sits a figure in a dressing-gown, the Oriental garb of the Northfor young counts, highnesses, rich brewers, and others. It is not easyto judge from the dressing-gown, the look of command, and the polishedsmile, upon what tree he has grown. His aspirations are those of thesempstress—to be excited, aroused, stuffed full of mysteries such as thelate Speiss knew. In Siucden. 943 And Scheherazade is decapitated. Wise, enlightened Sultan, now thou coinest in the form of the school-boy ; Eomans and Greeks, buckled together in the book-strap, bearestthou upon thy back, as Atlas bore the sky. Dont overlook poor Sche-herazade ; dont cut her head off before you have learned your task,and become a child again; dont decapitate poor Scheherazade. Thou young diplomatist, in gorgeous array, who showest by the crosseson thy breast the number of Courts thou bast visited with thy noble. IDE SULTAN AND SCHEDEEAZADE. chief, speak kindly of Scheherazades name, speak of her in French,that she may attain a distinction beyond her native tongue. Translatea single verse of her song, as badly as thou mayest, but carry it intothe brilliant saloon, and her sentence of death will be remitted by thesweet charmant of mercy. Mighty thrower-down and setter-up ! Thou Jupiter of newspapers,Zeus of weeklies, monthlies, and periodicals generally, shaka not thylocks in wrath! Hurl not thy thunderbolts if Scheherazade sing other-wise than thou hast been accustomed in thy family to hear, or if shehave no following amongst thy retainers. Dont cut off her head ! One more form we must notice, the most dangerous of all—the manwith the stormy rapture of applause upon his lips, the blind water into which Scheherazade has dipped her fingers is to him aCastalian spring; and the throne he builds up for her apotheosis be-comes her scaffold. Such is the p
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