The Rosicrucian Scandal

APPENDIX MY CRAPULOUS PREDECESSORS No. Roneer Buowsixe he method of critical analysis is not our own, who reverence Robert Browning as one of the xreatest of the Vietorian Poets. It is borrowed, with the acknowledgment of inverted commas (even the commas!) from distinguished luminaries of the Bench and Bar. Ep.) er 1g “the following, as I see ladies waiting at the booksellers’. S.C. HL “Any ladies” waiting at the booksellers’ “are probably far beyond any serupules of that sort.” Mr, Justice Mutton.) fe some hesitation” in. pri Pwvon Passes, By Rownier Beowstxe, “1 would call your lordship's fal letters of” of this obs cention very particularly to the revolting poem.” Separately: t shudder and vomit at * the loathsome and abominable ereature who has the eff wwe been buried without giving posterity examine him"! Together: how every Fi “Faugh! Ugh! Ugh! Fangh !” and blush! Transpose two vowels only : what hideous and am springs to sight! “If this is accidental, Mr." Brow how every Englishman n it be accidental? ing a friend—a |—of that Mr. Scrutton whose name is an anagram of sentence—not merely a word, mark you!—which asserts patho: logical fact familiar to every Syphilographer and his clients ‘couched! in the crudest and coarsest language! And if this be an accident too, what shall we say of the infamous ‘examples of paraprodokian from the plain text itself? “ABsculapins,an Epic, Catalogue of the drugs: Hebe’ plaister— One strip cools your lip. Phucbus’ emulsion —One bottle clears your throttle. Mercury's bolas—one box cures