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    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)
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    The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times)

    By Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer and Harry Graham

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) - Lewis Christopher Edward Baumer

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Motley Muse, by Harry Graham

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      Title: The Motley Muse

      (Rhymes for the Times)

      Author: Harry Graham

      Illustrator: Lewis Baumer

      Release Date: June 28, 2011 [EBook #36543]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MOTLEY MUSE ***

      Produced by Mark C. Orton, David E. Brown and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      book was produced from scanned images of public domain

      material from the Google Print project.)

      THE MOTLEY MUSE

      BY THE SAME AUTHOR

      THE MOTLEY MUSE

      (RHYMES FOR THE TIMES)

      BY

      HARRY GRAHAM

      AUTHOR OF 'RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES'

      ETC. ETC.

      With Illustrations by

      LEWIS BAUMER

      Second Impression

      NEW YORK

      LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.

      LONDON: EDWARD ARNOLD

      1913

      [All rights reserved]

      TO

      N. B.

      WHO DESIGNED

      THE COVER OF THIS BOOK

      ITS CONTENTS

      ARE

      GRATEFULLY DEDICATED

      NOTE

      Many of the verses published in this volume have appeared in the pages of 'The Observer,' 'The Pall Mall Gazette,' and 'The Graphic,' and are here reprinted by kind permission.

      CONTENTS

      FOREWORD

      THE WORLD WE LAUGH IN!

      ['Sadness, once a favourite pose of poets, is no longer fashionable. Nowadays melancholy people are looked upon as depressing.'—The Gentlewoman.]

      RHYMES FOR THE TIMES

      'WHAT'S IN A NAME?'

      [Lord Lincolnshire pointed out that Britain's glory has always depended very largely upon men whose names suggest

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