More Peers. Verses by H. Belloe. Pictures by B. T.
B. (Stephen Swift. 2s. ticf. net.)—Admirers of Mr. Belloc's lighter verse will be charmed by this new volume, which is scarcely less entertaining than the beat of its predecessors: The flavour of Mr. Belloc's humour is almost too delicate to bear quotation, especially apart from B. T. B.'s admirable pictures. Perhaps the best of the twelve poems is that which describes how Lord Lucky succeeded to a dukedom.
"It happened in the following way:— The Real Duke went out one day Ter shoot with several people, one Of whom had never used a gun_ This gentleman (a Mr. Meyer Of Rabley Abbey, Rutlandekire), As he was screreblin.g through the brake, Discharged his weapon by mistake, And plugged about an ounce of lead
Piff-bang into his Grace's Head"—
but we must leave the continuation of the tragic story for purchasers of the volume.
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