+--------------------+-----------------+ | | | | Fine Literature. | "Literature." | | Art. | Artifice. | | Emotion. | Feelings. | | | | +--------------------+-----------------+ And before I go into the special question, let me extend the list; it will explain itself. +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | | | | Romance, romantic. | A "Romantic" Affair in the West End. | | Tragedy, tragic. | "Tragedy" in Soho. | | Drama, dramatic. | Le "drame" de la Rue Cochon: | | | "Dramatic" Elopement in Peckham. | | Interest, interesting | An "interesting" number of "Snippets." | | [of "Hamlet"]. | | | Lyric. | The "Lyric" Theatre. | | Inebriated. | In an "inebriated" condition. | | | | +------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ That almost gives my secret away, doesn't it? Of course you see the place that the words in the right-hand column take in the scheme. The "Romantic" Affair in the West End really concerned the life of a draper's assistant, who robbed his master's till, in order that he might make presents to Miss Claire Tilbury, one of the "Sisters Tilbury" now performing at the "Lucifer." An unmentionable person cut his throat in some alley off Greek Street; hence the "Tragedy" in Soho. Two peculiarly squalid servants, who beat out their master's brains, under singularly uninteresting circumstances, acted the "Drama" of the Rue Cochon, and it was a dissolute barmaid who eloped "dramatically" from Peckham in the dog-cart of her employer. The two varying uses of the word "lyric" need not be underlined for you, who know the Elizabethans and the Cavaliers; but perhaps I may say that he who tastes _calix meus inebrians_ will not be in an "inebriated" condition. It would be possible to extend these parallel columns almost to infinity; but I think the list is long enough for our purpose, and "Trench on Words" is a well-known handbook. But you see my right-hand column word, parallel with "Emotion"? You see I have written "Feelings," and I suggest that it will be convenient to speak of feelings when we mean the things of life, of society, of personal and private relationship, while we may reserve emotion for the influence produced in man by fine art. Thus it will be with emotion that we witness the fall of Œdipus, the madness of Lear, while we feel for our friends and ourselves in misfortune. That seems to