THE poet in the comic opera, it will be remembered (I hope), claimed for his sthetic authority that "Hey diddle diddle will rank as an idyll, if I pronounce itchaste." In face of a satire which still survives the fashion it satirized, it may requiresome moral courage seriously to pronounce it chaste, or to suggest that thenursery rhyme in question has really some of the qualities of an idyll. Of its chastity, in the vulgar sense, there need be little...