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CHINA.
nUOMI I VIEW OF THE EASTERN
PROBLEM.
THE PAR EAST. ITS HISTORY AND ITS
QUESTION. By Alexis Krausse. . With eight
maps and five plans. Octavo, pp. xvi, 372. E.
P. Dutton & Co.
I Mr. Krausse, throughout the bulk of his
work, treating of the dealing of European
Powers and the United States with China in the
last ten years, evidently has in his own mind
¦ dear understanding of the two propositions,
i hat China, Is destined to pass through the suc
cessive stages of partition into "spheres of in
fluence" and protectorates, ending with dismem
berment and appropriation by the foreigners;
and that, in the great international scramble
for Chinese territory now in progress. Russia is
and must Inevitably remain the antagonist of
Great Britain, whose allies are and must he the
United States and Japan. Portugal and Spain,
which were almost the first to attempt com
munication with the great unknown Far East,
he dismisses with few words early in his nar
rative, devoting a much larger share of atten
tion to the process by which Russia, consistent
ly aggressive from the first, and taking ad
vantage of every embarrassment in which Brit
ish enterprise involved China, obtained slice
after slice of territory, until in 1858, Just when
Europe thought the Czar checked In his am
bitions by the event of the Crimean war, the
Treaty of Aigun added to his Asiatic dominion
a territory eight times as large as Great Britain
and Ireland. This Russian triumph came at a
time when Great Britain, after more than half
a century of stubborn effort, military and diplo
matic, had gained little more than a dawning
¦understanding of the great truth that to make
a treaty with China was one thing and to se
cure the fulfilment of its provisions quite an
other. As early as the reign of Charles II the
opium trade of the English with Canton had
been established, and in 1767 the import
amounted to 1.000 chests, averaging (1,000 a
piece. Things seem to have gone on smoothly
enough in this quarter until 1834, when th
i British Government placed the Interests of its
subjects resident at Canton under the care of
a superintendent, and then began the troubles
which culminated in the opium war of 1840.
The Treaty of Nan-King, in 1842, "marks," in
Mr. Krausse's opinion, "the first step In the
opening up of China to Western Intercourse."
Nevertheless, it also marked the beginning of
a, struggle between China and Great Britain,
which only subsided Into something like peace
after the destruction of the Summer Palace, in
1860. The Tai-Plng rebellion, affording the
British an opportunity to be useful to the Chi
nese Emperor, did something to promote the
success of subsequent British negotiations.
The author considers "The Awakening of Ja
pan" and "Unclosed Corea" of enough impor
tance to be given each a separate chapter. Un
der the former head he traces Russo-Japanese
relations from the year 1780. the beginning of
those negotiations by Alexander I which led up
to the visit, years later, of two Russian war ves
k eels to Kushunkotan and the sack of that town.
I "An inscription was left on the temple to the
effect that if the Japanese should change their
minds and wish to trade with Siberia, they
might send a message to Iturup; but if they
refused to treat with the Russians, the northern
arts of Japan would be attacked and ravaged."
The Japanese had not changed their minds by
the next year, and the threat was made good.
Full Justice Is done to the work of the United
States and of Commodore Perry, of which a
good account Is given in an evidently friendly
ppirit.
The climax of Mr. Krausse's book, however, is
its last chapter, in which, he surveys the actual
prospect in the Far East. "Although, by a
mutual understanding among the Powers," he
rays, "the existing developments In the Celestial
§ Empire are not regarded as constituting a state
of war, the situation daring the siege of the
legations can only be ; summarized as an at
tempt on the part of the Chinese to rid them
selves of the presence of the hated foreigner,
and. far from being on friendly terms with the
rest of humanity. China may be said to be at
war with civilization." The end of this war
will, of course, be the triumph of civilization.
but this author has grave misgivings as to how
England will fare in the division of the spoils.
So long as the British public remains content
to retain incompetence at the helm of State, so
long will the ship of empire be mismanaged
- It Is the custom of a certain class of
people to regard the utterance of any unpleasant
truth as the act of an alarmist, an alarmist in
the sense of a person who talks nonsense, which
may be safely disregarded. If a publicist draws
attention to an unfriendly act on the part of
Russia be is branded as a Russophobe, and as
such treated with disdain. If he ventures to
query the proclaimed superiority of our fleet, his
question, instead of being answered, is pointed at
in derision.
But. braving such derision. Mr. Krausse closes
his last chapter with this gloomy warning to
Englishmen:
The prospect in the Far East is clouded. Its
¦ultimate outcome must, by dint of the working
of the forces I have discussed, be partition and
absorption, until the whole of the map becomes
reconstituted. The lion's share must go to Rus
sia. Of that there can be no question. . . .
Corea as a national entity is doomed. The only
question is whether it will fall to Russia or Ja
pan, and it remains only to be seen whether
England will at the eleventh hour pull herself
together and strive to save the Tang-tse Valley
as her share of the spoil, or whether she will,
by a continuation of her past and present tac
tics. allow herself to be elbowed out of Central
China even as she has been out of Manchuria
and is about to be out of the North. Such is
the outcome of the situation, such is the prob
lem to be solved. The prospect is not a pleas
ant one. but there is yet time to divert it, if only
¦sj bestir ourselves and act before it is too
late. ¦ .
THE P.KAhEOIW MAP.
ITS RELATION T" THK KAKLY T< '!¦<;¦. -
HA THY Or NEW YORK CITY.
JAMES I.VNi: SURVEY. Or. as It is more
rorr.monly known. THE BRADFORD MAP. A
Plan of the City of New- York at the Time of
the Granting; of the Montgomery Charter, In
„ '17211 An Appendix to an Account of the Same
* Compiled in int. By William Lorlng Andrews.
12mo. pp. * Dodd. Mead & Co.
I The immediate cause of the publication of this
little monograph was a statement by Dr. John
F'ske In one of h's'books i.Mr, Andrews curiously
omits to state which one !n his reference to
volume and page, though It turns out to be
"Dutch and Quaker Colonies"), regarding the
Lyna map of New-York City. Dr. Flake, In this
unlucky- paragraph, and in the plate which he
incorporates in his book, has mistaken a repro
duction or that map, known as the Bradford
map, for the original, and has given wider cur
rency to dr. already current error as to the
date, calling it IT2S instead of 1731. Now, the
original map Is excessively rare; only two copies
of it are known to Mr. Andrew? to exist, of
which one is l:, his own possession. The other
was given to the New-York Historical Society
in 1&07. On the other hand, reproductions of it
are common. Mr. Andrews enumerates nine, of
which some have been multiplied in great num
bers for advertising purposes. In a matter so
important' a* determining' the early topography
of the first city of the New World, absolute ac
curacy is highly desirable, and, following the
spirit. of the motto he puts at the front of his
book, "Truth is the highest thing that man may
keep/ Mr. Andrew* wrote to Dr. Fiske. pointing
out his error To this note h - had. at the date
' of publication, on!;, the answer of "a silence
, which- we are told la sometimes more- eloquent
than words. -1 This sii. •:-;¦-" on th* pin : '
historian seems to have prompted the writing
of this little book, which is a charming addition
to the cartographical lore of pre-revolutionary
times.
Mr. Andrews takes occasion to remark upon the
rarity of early American engraving In general.
Not more than three or four impressions exist of
any such engraving executed before the middle
of the eighteenth century, of which he gives sev
eral striking examples. Not even the German
xylographie prints of the fifteenth century ex
ceed in rarity these incunabula. For this reason
the reports which come at intervals from vari
ous sources of the finding of original Bradford
maps have in them an element of ludicrousnesd
to students of Mr. Andrews's seriousness. This
seriousness is an admirable check on the work
of others who deal more largely with historical
matters. Mr. Andrews has made out his case,
to all appearances, but we do not understand
that he throws any further discredit on the
valuable historical work of Dr. Fiske.
THE LECTVRE PLATFUHM.
RECOLLECTIONS OF SOME OF ITS
CELEBRITIES.
ECCENTRICITIES OF GENIUS. Memories of
Famous Men and Women of the Platform and
Stage. By Major J. B. Pond. Octavo, pp. xxvi,
564. G. W. DilUngham Company.
Major Pond seems to have known most of the
men and women who have appeared within the
last generation upon the lecture platform—
to the lecture platform, notwithstanding the
decay of that once all pervading institution,
most who have won distinction, particularly yin
letters, are still irresistibly drawn. An impor
tant factor in drawing many of them has been
apparently Major Pond's persuasion, which few
have been able to resist. Those who have, have
had to refuse his acquaintance, courteously, like
Kipling, who wrote him that he might lecture
"as soon as I had two mortgages on my house,
a lien on the horses, and a bill of sale on the
furniture and writers' cramp in both hands; but
at present I'm busy and content to go on with
the regular writing business." Or. like Spur
geon. they have repulsed him with more decision
than cordiality. Major Pond has packed this
large volume full of his reminiscences, written
in a kindly and appreciative spirit. He began
his experience as manager with Ann Eliza. Brig
ham Young's nineteenth wife, whose recitals of
the inwardness of Mormonism had great public
effect in the early seventies: and his activity Is
not yet ended.
Nowadays people lecture because they have
become prominent In other ways; but in the
golden age of the lyceum platform, of which
Major Pond gives an entertaining sketch at the
close of his volume, there were lecturers who
won their fame thus and by nothing else. Such
were Gough and Phillips and Mrs. Llvermore.
The first two, with Beecher, the author calls
the greatest of lecturers; and of these Phillips
held his pre-eminence the longest— from IN4."> to
his death, nearly forty years afterward. Gough,
however, was the most popular with the largest
number of plain people. Beecher was almost
equally so, with a higher Influence. Phillips
spoke for a cause, and not for the money It
brought him. Says Major Pond:
One morning Mr. Phillips came into our office
to get his list of appointments. I said:
"Mr. Phillips, we have an open date. Spring
field offers $250 for it. Natick wants it. but
they can pay only $75."
"What's the population of the two towns?"
asked Mr. Phillips.
We looked it up, and gave him the census re
port of each town.
"Natick offers more in proportion to the num
ber of inhabitants than Springfield. Let Natick
have it," he said.
It is a curious fact that many experienced
lecturers have had stage fright that they never
could get rid of. Gough Is a case In point. He
never broke down, and never failed to capture
his audience, says Major Pond:
Yet he always had a mild sort of stage fright,
which never went off until he began to speak.
To get time to master this fright was the reason
why he always insisted on being "introduced"
to his audiences before he spoke, and he so in
sisted even in places where the absurd custom
had been abandoned for years.
The humorous lecturer appears to have a
harder time of It than any other. Every human
who attempts to make a whole evening of fun
finds It irksome, and Major Pond quotes "Bill"
Nye's experience:
The audience would fairly bubble over with
laughter until every fun liking muscle of their
faces relaxed and left one sombre, wet blanket
all over the assembly: and there they had to sit
and the humorist had to proceed to the end of
the programme without a response.
Even Mark Twain found It so, until he "took
a running mate" and interspersed pathos by
introducing George W. Cable In a Joint enter
tainment. Mark Twain's aversion to the plat
form, however, is pronounced, and Major Pond
quotes a letter from him in which he says: "I
do not expect to see the platform again until
the wolf commands. Honest people do not go
robbing the public on the platform, except when
they are in debt." It is fortunate for the pleas
ure of many people that this is not the uni
versal opinion. Major Pond's relations have ex
tended as far as from P. T. Barnum to Ralph
Waldo Emerson. It was his fortune to nego
tiate with Emerson in his old age to lecture in
the Old South Church, In Boston, for the fund
to save that historic building from demolition.
He tells the pathetic story of the lecture, the
last Emerson ever delivered, thus:
As he began reading his lecture the audience
was very attentive. After a few moments he
lost his place, and his granddaughter, sitting in
the front row of seats, gently stepped toward
him and reminded him that he was lecturing.
He saw at once that he was wandering, and,
with the most charming, characteristic, apolo
getic bow, be resumed his place — an Incident
that seemed to affect the audience more than
anything else that could possibly have occurred.
A few moments later he took a piece of manu
script in his hand and, turning around with it,
laid it on a side table.
Just then one of the audience said to me (I
think it was Mrs. Livermore or Mrs. Howe),
"Please have the audience pass right out," and,
rushing up to Mr. Emerson, said. "Thank you
so much for that delightful lecture"; then, turn-
Ing around, waved the audience to go out. He
probably had been speaking about fifteen min
utes. The audience passed out, many of them
in tears. It was one of the most pathetic sights
I ever witnessed.
Few present day readers will easily figure to
themselves Barnum • as a lecturer and under
another's management; but Major Pond had
much experience with him. lie was to give
twenty temperance lectures for $2,000 and ex
penses, and in his management of expenses he
was the most prudently economical man the
manager has ever known. "It made no differ
ence to him who paid the expenses; If they were
unnecessary he didn't want them Incurred."
The same rigid economy ruled all his dealings.
There is constant entertainment to be found In
turning over these pleasantly written and un
pretentious pages with their sheaf of curious
characteristics of many prominent men and
-women. We read of Sir Edwin Arnold's pro
digious memory — he could repeat perfectly any
poem he once heard, and one evening he offered,
if given the first line of any scene in Shakes
peare at random, to continue with the rest of it.
and fulfilled the test, saying afterward that he
could recite the whole of Shakespeare from be
ginning to end. When he visited Walt Whit
man, he spent an hour and a half quoting the
"good gray poet's" verses to him from memory.
We are Interested in Mr Gladstone's interest
in Major Pond's stories of Western frontier life,
and to hear that, having asked him to break
fast, the statesman had a stenographer sta
tioned behind a screen to take down his narra
XEW-YOKK DAILY TRIBUNE, SATTTCDAY. JANUARY 5. 1901.
tive, drawn out by "Mr. Gladstone's fascinating
way of doing things." And we are entertained
with a great fund of interesting and character
istic anecdotes about Henry Ward Beecher, with
whom Major Pond had his longest and most
intimate relations as manager. ' ,~"
ROOKS AM) AUTHORS.
CURRENT TALK OF THTXHS mRSENT
\X!> T<~i POMK
A friendly critic of "Deacon Bradbury." Edwin
Asa Dixs novel of New-England Iff", has at
tempted to make a point by showing that thf>
Incident of Charlie Bradbury's writing to hi?
mother under cover of letters remailed through
the postmaster of another city is impossible.
because the postal regulations directly forbid
a postmaster thus to remail a letter with
out indorsing on it the name of the place from
which it was sent to him. Mr. Dix is not to bp
bo caught, however, and points out that this
regulation did not go into effect till 1879, while
the events described in "Deacon nradbury" arp
supposed to take place in 1871.
Albert Diirer*s sixteen engravings representing
the Apocalypse are regarded ;ts MbMsbS Hm IMb4
remarkable works of the great IfsjVCMhMI ar
tist. W. B. Scott in his book "Albert DUrer;
His Life and Works" says that they are "tfcsj
most wonderful for invention as well as the
most bizarre and naive of all the creations of
Christian art." This series will be made acces
sible to DUrer's admirers In a set of fac-slmiles
that R. H. Russell is about to publish In a
volume, with accompanying text which affords
a description of them, chosen from the Revela
tion of St. John. Mr. Fltz Roy Carrlngton will
supply an Introduction.
Messrs. Henry Holt & Co. expect to add the
twenty-second, twenty-third and twenty-fourth
volumes to their convenient "English Readings"
series this month. They will be. first. "Selec
tions from Pope," edited by Dr. E. B. Reed, of
Yale, containing representative pieces by an au
thor better known nowadays by reputation than
from reading, together with a selection from his
letters. Then there will be Burkes "Speech on
Conciliation with America." edited by D. V.
Thompson, of New-Tork, and. third, a selection
from Swift's pro«e works, including "The Battle
of the Books." "The Modest Proposal." "The
Abolishing of Christianity." some of "The Dra
pier's Letters." and parts of "The Tale of a
Tub." edited by Professor Frederick Prescott,
of Cornell University.
"I have just strongly recommended for pub
lication a book of which the manuscript was the
worst that can come to a publisher's office,"
said a man influential in the councils of a great
New- York house the other day. "so I don't think
you can say that I am Influenced unfavorably
by bad manuscript. But If It has no effect on
the Judgment, it has a jtreat deal on the pa
tlenc-p. mental equilibrium and general happiness
of the reader, as every one may Imagine. No,
typewrit ton manuscript I should not prefer to
any other. I should rather have, most of all. a
moderate sized, good handwriting, written in
black ink on white paper of medium size, not
bound or stitched together. Typewriting is apt
to be rather faint, even If the abomination is
not committed of pending In a carbon copy.
Thon. very few authors can use the typewriter
without endless and exasperating errors—re
dundant letters and all sorts of wrong spelling,
omitted words, words wrongly cancelled when a
change was made, lines left out or overlapping
the edge of the paper, and all the other annoy
ing peculiarities of the typewriter in unprofes
sional hands.
"A very fine handwriting Is also objectionable,
except where— as In the case of a book that we
recently published, the author has made every
thing almost as plain and well formed as in
print— a most rare phenomenon. We object to
having manuscript bound, because for various
reasons it is often desirable to use only a part
of It at a time, and It must be torn apart for
the printer, anyway. I will not speak of the
manuscript held together by pink ribbons— l will
almoßt take back what I said in the beginning.
and admit that that might be the cause of
prejudice against the writer. Finally, there are
hands so bad that it Is the labor of minutes to
decipher each word: manuscripts that have to
be copied by the reader in careful collaboration
with a typewriter, and then compared with the
original manuscript with the help of a third
person. I needn't say that such consideration
is extended only to manuscripts of men whose
work is very much desired."
It is flttlnjf that a negro should write the au
thoritative book on the American negro; that Is
what the Macmillan Company believe has been
done by the Hon. William Hannibal Thomas in
"The American Negro: What He Was. What
H*» Is and What He May Become." which they
will publish by the middle of the month. Mr.
Thomas is now a lawyer of Everett. Mass.; he
served with distinction in the Civil War, and
afterward was a member of the Routh Carolina
legislature durlne: the Reconstruction period.
Trained in theology and law, he became a suc
cessful practitioner in the South Carolina courts,
and afterward f-stablixhed himself In Massa
chusetts. It is asserted that no such complete
and detailed Information exists elsewhere than
in this new book about the American negro, hits
physical and mental qualifications and capnH
ties, his vices and crimes, his religtoun beliefs,
his possibilities as an economic and political
factor in American life. Mr. Thomas frankly
concedes the negro's inferiority and convincingly
controverts the adequacy of the reformatory
agencies already instituted, but also forcibly in
dicates how the mental, moral, social. Industrial
and political elevation of the negro may ration
ally be achieved. A discussion of this sort is
bound to nerve a high purpose in these days
when, the vehemence of passion is being relaxed
on both sides.
Edward Dowden has written a book on Eng
lish literature of the seventeenth century.
which the Holts are about to publish under the
title of "Puritan and Anglican." In It Mr. Dow
den treats of "Puritanism and English Lltera-
Sir Thomas Browne. Hooker, Herbert.
Vaughan, Milton, Jeremy Taylor, Baxter, Bun
yan. Butler, "The Transition to the Eighteenth
Century." etc. He is said to have given a vivid
personal tone to the book through his frequent
use of the thoughts and phrases of the authors
discussed.
The Rev. Morgan Dix published the first vol
ume of his "History of Trinity Church" some
time ago, which Interested the corporation of
the Church so greatly that it has taken up the
book and given it its official assistance in fur
nishing material from its records, etc. The sec
ond volume will now shortly ai , .hi- ffcosa ti,.
press of G. P. Putnam's Sons.
If any doubt th.- importance „f i n ,. ,, ilr , n i H ye.i
I:, Ani.-ri.a-, history l.y the Scotch- Irish
families who have settled here they «ni i,,.
speedily undeceived by contemplating the two
large volumes comprising charl. « Manna's hook
'•Scotch-Irish Families In America" The hook
is genealogical In Us arrangem-nt. but the «u
thor also taken up the work nnd Influence of the
descendants of the families described— they in
clude McKlnley and Bryan, for Instance, and a
large number of the most prominent generals
..n both r.des in the Civil War. to go no further.
Mr. Har.na who writes it. I* the Xnflonal Bank
Kxamtner r r X -u - York
Judge Lacombe. of the iTnlt-d States Circuit
Docks anb publications.
The Most Popular Book in (America.
EBEN HOLDEN
By IRVING BACHELLER
OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN 30 DAYS
12mo. gold lettered on red cloth, silt top, $1.50
At All Bookttort*
LOTHROP PUBLISHING COMPANY, Boston
Court, in denying Rudyard Kipling's motion for
an injunction against a New- York firm, as re
cently noted in The Tribune, made the following
remarks that bear upon the matter of reprint
ing uncopyrlghted books:
Boldly stated, the proposition is that an author
whose mental productions, prose, verse and title,
have been given to the world by publication
without copyright, so that any one is free to
reprint and sell the whole or any part Of them,
may nevertheless regulate the manner in which
such reprinted matter may be grouped and en
titled, and may restrain any application of the
title he selected otherwise than as he used or
uses it. ... It would seem that the measure
or relief which authors may obtain against
unauthorized publication of their works must
be found in the copyright statutes which, whon
availed of, are an abundant protection against
such publication. Motion denied.
That the Germans are looking to American
literature more and more for new works In an
unconventional style 'hag several times recently
had illustration.' It is again shown by the pub
lication by a Leipslc firm of a German transla
tion of Ernest Seton-Thompson's "Wild Ani
mals I Have Known." The translator, in what
would be a preface In an English book, but Is
placed In what Mark Twain would doubtless
consider a characteristically German position
at the end of this volume, calls these stories
charming;, worthy to stand side by side with the
works of Bret Harte. Kipling: and Anderson, but
complains of the difficulty of translating them
on account of the technical phraseology, the
Americanisms and the concepts foreign to the
German mind that recur in them. The reader
of German books will be struck with the strong
influence of American bookmaktnc shown in
the appearance of the German edition, which Is
far removed from the usual style of the Ger
man publishing houses. The plates of the half.
tone pictures and of the quaint, trite marginal
drawings used in the American edition were
sent over by the American publishers, the
Messrs. Scrlbner. and the German publishers
have shown ingenuity enough to spread on the
inside of the covers the little wolf footprint
that Mr. Seton-Thompson baa adopted for a
sign manual. The translator apparently found
his troubles with the American Idiom beginning
with the title, for he has not attempted to put
that Into German, though It seems as if he
might have done so without greatly troubling
the imaginations of his readers. He has con
tented himself with a German title that means
"Bingo, and Other Animal Stories."
A check for a .very substantial amount was
received by the Scrlbners for the German, rights
to print a limited number of this translation. It
was Indorsed over to Mr Seton-Thompson in
time for him to get It on New Year's Day, and
In acknowledging it he wrote: "I cordially ap
prove of this method of opening the new cen
tury."
.inn\ PAVL.
TO THE! ASSEMBLED AUTHORS AT THK A! -
THORS' CMJB. WATCH NIOHT. DE
CEMBER SI. UOS-ltOl.
[At th* Authors' Club on Watch Night Professor Calvin
Thorns*, of th« club council and also of Columbia Coil's*,
read the following Unas addressed to his fellow members
by diaries Henry Webb, without revealing the Identity of
the author.]
Oh, watchers of th» Authors' Club.
Why do ye keep Watch Night—
Unless because to keep things close
Ye must of needs be tight?
I've seen the New Year come -ah, no!
We'll number not the times:
And Just as oft the Old Year go.
Rung out by Christmas chimes.
I've »at in these sepulchral rooms <
Andrew Carnegie gave.
And listened to th«» funny thing*
Till -I felt very grave.
I've seen the younger members smoke
Pipes far beyond their ears;
I've heard a speaker perorate.
And thanks were blent with tear*.
I've seen our liberal members bow.
Or. rather, crook a knee.
To ask why this is always thus—
And love and beer not free.
!.o: in the Van a reverend.
Who now at Princeton teaches,
V But, pulpit In or pulpit out.
None e'er complain he preaches.
Our Poet — dearest of the dear.
With eyes bo blue and true—
Who. if you smooth htm the wrong way.
Makes all around him blue;
Dear lad! he's far and far away.
.Searching Bermuda's beach
For the smooth stones Demosthenes
Found aids to fluent speech. . ".
For realists I look In vain.
Not one Is really here.
Perhaps elsewhere they Tolstoi pledge
In anarchistic beer. .
But cheer our stalwart skipper In
A Horn of his own brew.
With a tiger for the -Lady-
One for th» Tiger, too!
And skoal to dear old Abbey.
Who on a Phaeton dotes.
And keeps to feed bis Pegasus
A store of hay and oats.
• And— well, but hero It's well to pause;
Experience proclaims
That In an Authors' Parliament
„ One shouldn't mention names;
I'"or with one great name mentioned, ana
A greater one left out, •' '.-'v.' "
Two men'aro sure to be aggrieved -
An. l which l!..- worne. I doubt.
Rut, hither, minions, .-sir a cup,
I know, not what it be;
But since ii has a Scotchy prnfll, ;
We'll call it "barley bree."
; . . And this good cup i empty : -..«
And will refill the same, ~ ". '• V :
To all who authors really are
And all -who have th<» name
To 'those who gather up the fruit,
¦ " ;To tbose who shake th» tree. jj
And always call a spade a spade*-'.'
And never call It "bree."
So, stand and hold your glii.tses inch.
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