_Mr. W.H. Smith_.--To renew his stock of Copy-book proverbs.
_Mr. Gladstone_.--To compile and annotate a new volume of _Gleanings_,
containing the _Quarterly_ Article on "Vaticanism," and the speech in
support of the Ripon-plus-Russell Relief Bill.
_Mr. Goschen_.--To divide the coming Surplus to everyone's
satisfaction.
_Mr. Balfour_.--To learn to love both wings of the Irish Party.
_Mr. Justin McCarthy_.--To discover his exact position.
_Mr. S.B. Bancroft_.--To regard with satisfaction his gift to General
Dealer BOOTH.
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[Illustration: JUNIUS JUDEX.
_A Pindaric Fragment_. (_A long way after Gray_.)]
Awake, O Themis-twangled lyre, awake,
And give to paeans all thy sounding strings!
Here is a triumph joyfuller than Spring's.
JEUNE smacks of Summer rather, and must take
The cake!
As frescoed heroes cloud-borne progress make,
So--happy apotheosis!--advances
Stately Sir FRANCIS!
See how late-knighted Justice moves along,
High, majestic, smooth and strong,
Through Cupid's maze and Neptune's mighty main
(O Wimpole Street, uplift the strain!)
Toward that proudly portal'd door.
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