4/7 And in the midst of the ideas a figure insanely whirled, till it became a mere wheel of flying skirts and tossing limbs. Then he set to and wrote hard at the Quarterly Catalogue. In all London there was not a more prolific or versatile writer than Savage Keith Rickman. But if in ninety-two you had asked him for his masterpiece, his _magnum opus_, his life-work, he would mention nothing that he had written, but refer you, soberly and benignly, to that colossal performance, the Quarterly Catalogue. Rare. |