776 Mr. Owen Seaman on Parody [May 30, 



seize an author's permanent qualities is a much harder task, requiring 

 close familiarity with his work. ^. . . 



The ri^ht occasion for a parody. The rarity of excuses for a 

 collective series. "Rejected Addresses," "Lost Masterpieces, 

 " New Rhymes for Old." . . . i ^^ 



The right scope of a parody. Is it allowed to criticize the author 

 himself as well as his work ? Necessity for an attitude of detach- 

 ment on the part of the parodist. -,1.11 . 



The right subject for a parody. Limits imposed by the laws ot 

 decency. Humour's way of paying homage to serious achievement. 

 Need for a certain community of spirit with the writer who is to be 

 parodied. , 



The test of a good parody. Its highest triumph to be approved 

 by the author whom it ridicules. 



The part played by parody in the service of literature. 



[O.S.] 



GENERAL MONTHLY MEETING, 



Monday, June 2, 1913. 



His Geace The Duke of Northumbeeland, K.G. P.O. D.C.L. 

 r.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Leonard Rome Guthrie, Esq. 

 George Wilson Heath, Esq., F.R.G. ''< 

 Ronald Malcolm, Esq. 



were elected Members of the Royal Institution. 



The Secretary announced the decease of Lord Avebury on May 28, 

 1913, and the following Resolution, passed by the Managers at their 

 Meeting held this day, was read and unanimously adopted : — 



Resolved, That the Managers of the Royal Institution desire to record their 

 sense of the loss sustained by the Institution in the decease of the Right 

 Honourable Lord Avebury, P.O. D.C.L. LL.D. M.D., Vice-President of the 

 Royal Society of London, Corresponding Member of the French Academy, 

 Commander of the Legion of Honour, Prussian Order pour le Merite. 



Lord Avebury was a Member of the Royal Institution for sixty-four years, 

 and he served the Institution on several occasions as Vice-President and 

 Manager. He delivered courses of Afternoon Lectures at the Royal Institu- 

 tion in 1864 and 1868, the subjects being "The Antiquity of Man" and 

 " Savages." He has given no less thau ten Friday Evening Discourses, viz. 

 as follows : " The Ancient Lake Habitations of Scotland " (1863), " The Meta- 

 morphoses of Insects" (186G), "The Relations of English Wild Flowers to 

 Insects" (1875), two Friday Evening Discourses on "Habits of Ants" (one in 

 1877 and the other in 1879), "Fruits and Seeds" (1881), "Forms of Leaves" 



