Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Language, Cultural Geography, Scientific Practitioners, Astronomy, Chemistry

    Ridiculing an extract from the Le Monde Artiste, which describes the title of 'barronet' being conferred upon 'the Poet Lanwent Alfred Temysson', develops this typographically inept and ill-informed style by suggesting other claims that might be made by the newspaper. These include the question: 'Would they hold Feraday's telescope firmer, or make steadier the crucible of M. Airy?'.