OUR CAPTIOUS CRITIC
... . AFTER, doubtless, what the daily papers in their bulletins of the proceedings of exalted personages would call a favourable time, Messrs. Gilbert and Sullivan brought forth their æsthetic opera. This mountain of combined genius and intel lect produced a-- well, a tolerably large-sized rat. England, let us hope, has always expected every man to do his duty, and, in these days of supposed ...