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Observer, Volume 3, Issue 77, 4 March 1882, Page 392

This modern maudlin, vrhitcd sepulchre, Dutch metal, sham sample, sand sugar, and dead liorse sausage age of ours is the age of sham philanthropy, of unmitigated cant, and of despicablest Pharisaism. John Bull is developing into a Pecksniff of Pecksniffs, and Oharifcy and Mercy are the names of the heartless minxes he proudly parades as his very dear daughters. : At last meeting of the City Council, Mayor is : reported to have said that " he was in favour of "giving : three months to all the oflicers of the Council !" It is ' well that,- wifh.such views, His "Worship had not a seat !on the Magisterial Bench ! No doi'ibt some of the ■ officials may deserve a period- 'of seclusion in Mount ■' Eden, but to include all is r*tjher too sweeping. > A writer in a London . paper says that the i lowest percentage of Insanity isainxnig men and women engaged as authors, editors, journalists, reporters, translators, and in other literary work. Of 140,000 such persons 12 only are returned as lunatics. This can only be accounted for by their seeing so much insanity exhibited by correspondents' and contributors that they, profiting by example, avoid it themselves.