XXI DILLETANTE (St. James’s Street).

Mr. Reginald Hyphen is terribly “one of us,” He was born with a mouth just made for a silver spoon, (So the Butler locks up the plate when he comes to dine.) The thought of the Middle Classes makes him swoon, And he never will dance unless he is sure of the wine— And O, it was such an affair, when he took a ’bus! And yet he’s not only a butterfly, carefully smart, He thinks a great deal and has a devotion to Art. He has read some Meredith too—“Rather neat in its way” And perhaps, if he’s time, he will “do something like it—some day.”