From a poultry-breeder's advertisement:-- "My strains of Rhodes are only too well known." * * * * * "Miss Winnie ----, the charming and talented actress, writes:--'I am quite positive--I owe my present health and spirits to ----.'"--_Advt. in Daily Paper._ "Poor Miss Winnie ---- has had to retire suddenly from the revue-- doctor's orders."--_Same paper, same day._ We should have liked to hear the Advertisement Manager's view of the News Editor. * * * * * [Illustration: "OO, LUMME! WOT PRICE REGINALD IN 'IS MALLABY-DEELEYS?"] * * * * * FREUD AND JUNG. [A reviewer in a recent issue of _The Times Literary Supplement_ asks, "Why should the characters in the psychological novel be invariably horrid?" and is inclined to explain this state of affairs by the undiscriminating study of "the theories of two very estimable gentlemen, the sound of whose names one is beginning to dislike-- Messrs. Freud and Jung."] In QUEEN VICTORIA'S placid reign, the novelists of note In one respect, at any rate, were all in the same boat; Alike in _Richard Feverel_ and in _Aurora Floyd_ You'll seek in vain for any trace of Messrs. JUNG and FREUD. They did not fail in colour, for they had their PEACOCK'S tales; Their heroines, I must admit, ran seldom off the rails; They had their apes and angels, but they never once employed The psycho-analytic rules devised by JUNG and FREUD. They ran a tilt at fraud and guilt, at snobbery and shams; They had no lack of Meredithyrambic epigrams; The types that most appealed to them were not neurasthenoid; They lived, you see, before the day of Messrs. JUNG and FREUD. (I've searched the last edition of the famous _Ency. Brit._ And neither of this noble pair is even named in it; Only the men since Nineteen-Ten have properly enjoyed The privilege of studying the works of JUNG and FREUD.) Their characters, I grieve to say, were never more unclean Than those of ordinary life, in morals or in mien; They had not slummed or fully plumbed with rapture unalloyed The unconscious mind as now defined by Messrs. JUNG and FREUD. The spiritual shell-shock which these scientists impart Had not enlarged or cleared the dim horizons of their art; They had not learned that mutual love by wedlock is destroyed, As proved by the disciples of the school of JUNG and FREUD. The hierophants of pure romance, ev'n in its recent mood, From STEVENSON to CONRAD, such excesses have eschewed; But the psycho-pathologic route was neither mapped nor buoyed Until the new discoveries of Messrs. JUNG and FREUD. That fiction should be tonic all may readily agree; That its function is emetic I, for one, could never see; And so I'm glad to find _The Times Lit. Supp._ has grown annoyed At the undiscriminating cult of Messrs. JUNG and FREUD.