28 DECEMBER 1901, Page 17

IIOLANTHE " UP TO DATE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] venture to suggest the following up-to-date version of the well-known lines in Mr. Gilbert's Iolanthe, as the terms "Liberal" and " Conservative " seem already almost to

belong to a bygone age :— "Every little him and her That once commences to exist Is either a Little Englander Or else a little Imperialist." am, Sir, Sal; E. S. T.