ies _Winthrop Mackworth Praed_ 327
Song _John Donne_ 330
The Oubit _Charles Kingsley_ 330
Double Ballade of Primitive Man _Andrew Lang_ 331
Phillis's Age _Matthew Prior_ 332

V: CYNICISM

Good and Bad Luck _John Hay_ 334
Bangkolidye _Barry Pain_ 334
Pensees De Noel _A. D. Godley_ 336
A Ballade of an Anti-Puritan _G. K. Chesterton_ 337
Pessimism _Newton Mackintosh_ 338
Cynical Ode to an Ultra-Cynical Public _Charles Mackay_ 339
Youth and Art _Robert Browning_ 339
The Bachelor's Dream _Thomas Hood_ 342
All Things Except Myself I Know _Francois Villon_ 343
The Joys of Marriage _Charles Cotton_ 344
The Third Proposition _Madeline Bridges_ 345
The Ballad of Cassandra Brown _Helen Gray Cone_ 345
What's in a Name? _R. K. Munkittrick_ 347
Too Late _Fits Hugh Ludlow_ 348
The Annuity _George Outram_ 350
K. K.--Can't Calculate _Frances M. Whitcher_ 353
Northern Farmer _Lord Tennyson_ 354
Fin de Siecle _Unknown_ 357
Then Ag'in _Sam Walter Foss_ 357
The Pessimist _Ben King_ 358
Without and Within _James Russell Lowell_ 359
Same Old Story _Harry B. Smith_ 360

VI: EPIGRAMS

Woman's Will _John G. Saxe_ 362
Cynicus to W. Shakespeare _James Kenneth Stephen_ 362
Senex to Matt. Prior _James Kenneth Stephen_ 362
To a Blockhead _Alexander Pope_ 362
The Fool and the Poet _Alexander Pope_ 363
A Rhymester _Samuel Taylor Coleridge_ 36