VISCOUNT, better known as plain JOHN MORLEY,

As I gather from a chatty screed,

Ever daily grows exteriorly

(Pray forgive a rhymer's urgent need)

More like GOETHE—please pronounce it "Gertie"—

Who expired soon after eighteen-thirty.

But this instance is not isolated,

As a survey of our statesmen shows;

WINSTON now suggests a long post-dated

DAN O'CONNELL in his mouth and nose;

NORTHCLIFFE's growing more Napoleonic

Than the Corsican, though less laconic.

In the noble lineaments of BILLING

Shrewd observers (like myself) can trace

Wonderful, inspiring, vivid, thrilling

Memories of JULIUS CAESAR'S face,

With a hint of something far more regal,

More suggestive of the soaring eagle.

I admit GEORGE MOORE is not yet showing

Marked resemblance to his namesake, TOM;

But great CHESTERTON is hourly growing

Almost indistinguishable from

Dr. JOHNSON; daily grows more plain

SHAKSPEARE'S facial forecast of HALL CAINE.

HALDANE and his spiritual brother,

SCHOPENHAUER, that dyspeptic sage,

Monthly grow so very like each other,

As portrayed in MAXSE'S lurid page,

That it passes MAXSE'S Christian charity

To detect the least dissimilarity.

BELLOC is approximating closely

To the massive mien of CHARLES JAMES FOX;

BUCHAN plagiarizes very grossly

From the rapt expression of JOHN KNOX;

And the LAUREATE, if his hair grew scanty

Or he shaved his beard, might look like DANTE.

CLARA BUTT, the eminent musician,

Vividly resembles PERICLES;

SARGENT and the late lamented TITIAN

Are as like each other as two peas;

LOREBURN, known to cronies as "Bob" Reid,

Duplicates the Venerable BEDE.

But enough of this identifying

Instances of the recurrent face;

Rather let us foster an undying

Resolution in the British race

Evermore and evermore to shun

Any imitation of the Hun.