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The Knickerbocker Gallery/Too Much a Change

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4675976The Knickerbocker Gallery — Too Much of a Change1855Charles Astor Bristed

C A Bristed

Too Much of a Change.



  B———y, the publisher one day
  Thus to a friend did say:
"Smith, I intend to start a Magazine,
  The name of which will be
  'The Wit's Miscellany.'"
Quo' Smith, "I think the title rather green;
  It has too much pretention
  And not enough invention.
You'd better change the name." The other did
(At least so he supposed) as he was bid,
  And called it "B———y's," thinking that as good
But, though this name had cost him some reflection,
It failed to obviate his friend's objection,
  Who said, "I fear I was misunderstood.
The title 'Wit's Miscellany' you know
I did not quite appropriate deem;
But then I never meant that you should go
To the opposite extreme."