There were two types; one was the Neapolitan _Polichinello_, whom we have naturalised as _Punch_; and the other the God _Pan_, with his horns, and hoofs, and tail, whom the whole Christian world has recognised as the devil, for these many ages.

Well, some took one type and some the other; and a few tried to combine the two, of course spoiling both.

But, beyond this, their power of invention could not go.

They were always trying to conceal the old idea, and could do no more than to distort it.

We could see through their flimsy pretensions to originality much as a schoolmaster recognises the extracts from the encyclopaedia in his boys' essays.
As with this Judas trade, so it is with other more important arts and sciences in this country.