Intime_ we read the following, which we
faithfully transcribe.

"Of the many attractions of Battery Park, the girls and the sea were
my favourite. For the girls in a crowd have for me a fascination which
only the girls at the bath can surpass. I love to lose myself in a
crowd, to buffet, so to speak, its waves, to nestle under their
feathery crests. For the rolling waves of life, the tumbling waves of
the sea, and the fiery waves of Al-Mutanabbi's poetry have always been
my delight. In Battery Park I took especial pleasure in reading aloud
my verses to Khalid, or in fact to the sea, for Khalid never would
listen.

"Once I composed a few stanzas to the Milkmaid who stood in her wagon
near the lawn, rattling out milk-punches to the boys. A winsome lass
she was, fresh in her sororiation, with fair blue eyes, a celestial
flow of auburn hair, and cheeks that suggested the milk and cherry in
the glass she rattled out to me. I was reading aloud the stanzas which
she inspired, when Khalid, who was not listening, pointed out to me a
woman whose figure and the curves thereof were remarkable. 'Is it not
strange,' said he, 'how the women here indraw their stomachs and
outdraw their hips? And is not this the opposite of the shape which
our women cultivate?'

"Yes, with the Lebanon women, the convex curve beneath the waist is
frontward, not hindward. But that is a matter of taste, I thought, and
man is partly responsible for either convexity. I have often wondered,
however, why the women of my country cultivate that shape. And why do
they in America cultivate the reverse of it? Needless to say that both
are pruriently titillating,--both distentions are damnably suggestive,
quite killing. The American woman, from a fine sense of modesty, I am
told, never or seldom ventures abroad, when big with child. But in the
kangaroo figure, the burden is slightly shifted and naught is amiss.
Ah, such haunches as are here exhibited suggest the _aliats_ of our
Asiatic sheep."

And what he says about the pruriently titillating convexities, whether
frontward or hindward, suggests a little prudery. For in his rhymes he
betrays both his comrade and himself. Battery Park and the attractions
thereof prove fatal. Elsewhere, therefore, they must go, and begin to
draw on their bank accounts. Which does not mean, however, that they
are far from the snare. No; for when a young man begins to suffer from
what the doctors call hebephrenia, the farther he dr