Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Animal Behaviour

    Following an apparently mendacious account of Prince Alfred in the Croydon Chronicle, asks, as a 'loyal subject', whether there is any protection from 'these literary Gorillas who, when hard up for club scandal, make attack upon our Princes' and the throne. This is possibly a reference to Paul B Du Chaillu's controversial claims regarding the aggressive nature of gorillas.