MEMORANDA.
IHESE Memorand-a are not a " humorous "
department. I would not conduct an
exclusively and professedly humorous depart¬
ment for anyone. I would always prefer to have
the privilege of printing a serious and sensible
remark, in case one occurred to me, without the
reader's feeling obliged to consider himself outraged.
We cannot keep the same mood day after day. I
am liable, some day, to want to print my opinion
on jurisprudence, or Homeric poetry, or inter¬
national law, and I shall do it. It will be of small
consequence to me whether the reader survive or
not. I shall never go straining after jokes when in
a cheerless mood, so long as the unhackneyed
subject of international law is open to me. I will
leave all that straining to people who edit pro¬
fessedly and inexorably " humorous " departments
and publications,
I have chosen the general title of Memoranda for
this department, because it is plain and simple, and
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