CAXTON.--"Charming; but rather the manners of the last century than this.

You may as well cite Addison and Sir Roger de Coverley." PISISTRATUS.--"'Tremaine' and 'De Vere.'" MR.

CAXTON.--"Nothing can be more graceful, nor more unlike what I mean.
The Pales and Terminus I wish you to put up in the fields are familiar images, that you may cut out of an oak tree,--not beautiful marble statues, on porphyry pedestals, twenty feet high." PISISTRATUS.--"Miss Austen; Mrs.Gore, in her masterpiece of 'Mrs.
Armytage;' Mrs.Marsh, too; and then (for Scottish manners) Miss Ferrier!" MR.

CAXTON (growing cross).--"Oh, if you cannot treat on bucolics but what you must hear some Virgil or other cry 'Stop thief,' you deserve to be tossed by one of your own 'short-horns.'" (Still more contemptuously)--"I am sure I don't know why we spend so much money on sending our sons to school to learn Latin, when that Anachronism of yours, Mrs.Caxton, can't even construe a line and a half of Phaedrus,--Phaedrus, Mrs.Caxton, a book which is in Latin what Goody Two-Shoes is in the vernacular!" MRS.

CAXTON (alarmed and indignant).--"Fie! Austin I I am sure you can construe Phaedrus, dear!" Pisistratus prudently preserves silence.
MR.