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Excerpt from Points of View
More than half a dozen years have passed since Mr. Andrew Lang, startled for once out of his customary lightheartedness, asked him self, and his readers, and the ghost of Charles Dickens all three powerless to answer whether the dismal seriousness of the present day was going to last forever; or whether, When the great wave of earnestness had rippled over our heads, We would pluck up heart to be merry and, if needs be, foolish once again. Not that mirth and folly are in any degree synonymous, as of old; for the merry fool, too scarce, alas, even in the times when Jacke of Dover hunted for him in the highways, has since then grown to be rarer than a phoenix. He has carried his cap and bells, and jests and laughter, elsewhere, and has left as to the.
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