text:  Poetry is seldom if ever published except at the cost of the poet; and the foreman of one of the leading London houses is deputed to apprize aspiring rhymesters that "his firm considers poetry a mild species of insanity"--_Anglice_ that it does not suit the appetite of the circulating library! For behold! this despot of bookmakers must have length breadth and thickness to fill the book boxes dispatched to its subscribers in the country as well as satisfy in town the demands of its charming subscriber Lady Sylvester Daggerwood and all her daughters