Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Library, Vol. 1: A Quarterly Review of Bibliography
And by that risk to end my daily headaches, ' and so on. The burlesque is full of what are obviously allu sions to contemporary characters and events, and without a key to these one is in the dark as to the quality of Wit that is being displayed. Indeed, on looking through it I was irresistibly reminded of a criticism of Shakespeare's Hamlet that was told to me as coming from the mouth of an actor's dresser who had been witnessing that play for the first time. On being asked what he thought of it, he replied Well, sir, it may have been funny when it was written, but it isn't now.'
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