The "Court Circular" pleased me better; indeed, its simple and dignified respectfulness was a distinct refreshment to me after all those disgraceful familiarities.

But even it could have been improved.
Do what one may, there is no getting an air of variety into a court circular, I acknowledge that.

There is a profound monotonousness about its facts that baffles and defeats one's sincerest efforts to make them sparkle and enthuse.

The best way to manage--in fact, the only sensible way--is to disguise repetitiousness of fact under variety of form: skin your fact each time and lay on a new cuticle of words.

It deceives the eye; you think it is a new fact; it gives you the idea that the court is carrying on like everything; this excites you, and you drain the whole column, with a good appetite, and perhaps never notice that it's a barrel of soup made out of a single bean.