There is not much in that joke of bad spelling, and we should have been inclined to say beforehand, that Mrs.Malaprop had done it so well and so sufficiently, that no repetition of it would be received with great favour.

Like other dishes, it depends upon the cooking.

Jeames, with his "suckmstances," high or low, will be immortal.
There were _The Travels in London_, a long series of them; and then _Punch's Prize Novelists_, in which Thackeray imitates the language and plots of Bulwer, Disraeli, Charles Lever, G.P.

R.James, Mrs.Gore, and Cooper, the American.

They are all excellent; perhaps Codlingsby is the best.