Lilies and Saws
SIR,—In your last issue Mr. C. H. Butler asked you if he might " gild the lily with a simple saw." You did your best to comply with this most extraordinary request. Without a word of protest you allowed him to make the attempt, although you must have known that an impossible ambition of this kind ought not to be encouraged. Before we know where we are we shall find somebody anxious to pitch a perfume on the violet. It must have caused infinite distress to Janus, who usually watches over matters such as these with a grim solicitude. And has he not enough to bear when in the same issue he is accused by Mr. McBain of a curious and novel offence—" evolving" letters in your c,orrespondende columns ? In any event I must record the-grave displeasure of the Worshipful Company of Painter-Stainers (althougy have not had time to consult them) at this quite unwarranted invasion by Mr. Butler of their prerogative-.—Yours sincerely,
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