On the whole, I agree with Mr. Arnold that parody is a vile art; but the dictum is a little too sweeping.

It was a generous appreciation, for the original Poor Matthiasan elegy on a canaryis an exquisite poem, and the World's parody of it is a rather dull imitation.

The parodies of the style of Mr. PATER, and of a translation of a Tolstoian Romance in The Cornhill Magazine, are capital.

He must have felt that parody was not his forte, and, with his connection with le Mercure, an opportunity was presented to deal with actualities, where his powers of observation might come into play.

A parody of anything really good, whether in prose or verse, is as odious as a burlesque of Hamlet; but, on the other hand, parody is the appropriate punishment for certain kinds of literary affectation.

Lamb's De Quincey parody was the "Letter to an Old Gentleman, whose Education has been Neglected.

Parodies are usually not works of artistic importance, and this for all its epigrammatic neatness is no exception to the rule.

" It partakes more of the Spanish than of the French tragedy, although it does not demand that the parody shall be so very strict, as to re-echo noun for noun, or verb for verb, which Lord Holland gives us as a law of the age of Lope de Vega.