New-York tribune., 1899-10-07

is of those to which Prof Sansbury refers as having
hardly superior" Here and there in these odes he
points moral by some racy tale or fable OF such are
the familiar Razor seller" and The pilgrims and the
Peas and criticisms, irrcsisibly clever are more
especially suitable for private reading
Peter commenced making sport of the King with
herocomic poem in five cantos, called d" The Lou
siad" The occasion was the finding by the King OIL a
louise on his plate as lie sat table on which he de-
creed that his cooks and sculions should all be shaved
Peter is totally uudeterred by any scrupe. ana I'D the
most unsparng manner hits every one he thinks de-
serving within Lis reach Hence Macaulay calls him
Savage Wolcot" Scott " the most unsparing calum-
nator Of his time" and Burns glorious fellow But
in the scenes he depicts he nowhere ridcues virtue or
calls it hypocrite", his methods matter Of
taste and his language the language Of the time He
does not soar in Imagination as Byron when he follows
George to Tie gate Of which ST. Peter keeps the key
but like Swift stands upon lhe earth and uses for
SMILES Of convincing force and with which his pages
brisue the most familiar and common Objects as-to
take one out of hundrodswhen he compares hards in
their poverty. mounting through prisons to immor-
taty, like souls through purgatory:
To burn before they reach the realms of light
Like Old tobacco pipes from black to white
In the description Of the Kings surprise at seeing
the offensive object Oh his plate, we have:
Not more aghast he looked when midst the course,
He tumbed III stag chase, from his horse
Where all the mobiles deemed their monarch dead,
But luckily he pitched upon his head.
The cooks protest against being shaved. the Spirit
Of Dscord takes the form of Schwellenocrg to urge
the King to the deed, and again, the form Of Nine.
Haggcrdorn to urge the cook major to resistance;
Yam Dixon raider your dear life lay down,
Dan be de laugh (mne GoteD Of all de town &c'
Then comes a revolt in the kitchen, and the royal
family to put it down and carry out the decree After
the shaving. the lousc which the King had in box
addressed him. telling him that he was born and Dred
in a pages head. got to dairy maids during
kissing thence to The Kings, where, with his wife ard
nits he lived very happily until he fell one day upon
the plate
But there are other very amusing though less eaD-
crate stories of the King That Of the apple dumping
where be cannot understand how the apples got nsde
the visit to Salisbury Cathedral and his proposal TO
knight the yerger on the spot and the visit to Wilton
House where he wants the sculpture, and where
We have the following:
who's this? Who's this? Who's this fine fellow
Sesostris" bowing low replied the peer
Sir s0stris hcy2 Sir SOsris? Pom my word
Knight q haronet, my Ord2
One of my making? what my lord, my making?"
This with a vengeance was mistaklng.
More ridiculous still is the visit to Wh,breads
brewery and this be submits to the Laureate a spec
men of a birthday ode On the appointed day the royal
procession moved along:
And fixed an Smihfed's wondering eyes,
For 10, a greater show ne'cr graced those quarters
Since Mary roasted just like crabs the martyrs
The various features Of the brewery viydly ror
rayed the behavior Of the visitors and every coneeiv
able incident erotcsquely described. The brewer tells
the King how far his butts would reach, placed side
,, side ON which George wishes know how FAR they