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LITERARY BYE-HOURS: A Book of Instructive 

 Pastime. 



By H. A. PAGE. 



Square Small Crown. 25. 6d. 



Containing Vers de Societe and Parody, with typical 

 Illustrations of all present-day styles. 



EXTRACT FROM PREFACE. 



" To mingle the instructive and the amusing, in 

 fit and fair proportion, is no easy task, but this is- 

 what the author of the present little volume has 

 aimed at. Goethe, not without a certain uncon- 

 scious self-revelation, said sneeringly of parody : " I 

 have never concealed what an implacable enemy I 

 am to all parody and travesty ; but it is only on 



