On the other hand, the excellent J.B. has not escaped calumny. If I were disposed to reproduce some of the slanders upon him, it goes without saying that they would make a rather large chapter. All manner of foreign writers have time and time again had a fling at the Englishman. They love him, but their love is not blind. They perceive that he has faults of a grievous nature, and they write accordingly. Curiously enough, too, quite severe criticisms of John Bull have been written in his own household. Mr. Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, for example, who is an Englishman, and apparently innocent of Celtic taint, actually goes so far as to call the Englishman an Anglo-Norman dog: Down to the latest born, the hungriest of the pack, The master-wolf of all men, called the Sassenach, The Anglo-Norman dog, who goeth by land and sea, As his forefathers went in chartered piracy, Death, fire in his right hand. And the English poet goes on to elaborate his indictment against the Englishman, thus: He hath outlived the day Of the old single graspings, where each went his way Alone to plunder all. He hath learned to curb his lusts Somewhat, to smooth his brawls, to guide his passionate gusts, His cry of "Mine, mine, mine!" in inarticulate wrath. He dareth not make raid on goods his next friend hath With open violence, nor loose his hand to steal, Save in community and for the common weal 'Twixt Saxon man and man. He is more congruous grown; Holding a subtler plan to make the world his own By organized self-seeking in the paths of power He is new-drilled to wait. He knoweth his appointed hour And his appointed prey. Of all he maketh tool, Even of his own sad virtues, to cajole and rule. We are told, further, that the Beloved has tarred Time's features, pock-marked Nature's face, and "brought all to the same jakes," whatever that may mean. Also: There is no sentient thing Polluteth and defileth as this Saxon king, This intellectual lord and sage of the new quest. The only wanton he that fouleth his own nest, And still his boast goeth forth.