A Damaging Name

"Was your poem üu 'Spring's Advent' accepted by The Asterisk?" "No; you see Isigned it 'Yblirt,' and the editor, viso, like all old men, is always looküig baekward, sent it back, with the remark that his readers had had all the Trilby they could stagger nnder, and he couldn't affoi'd to lose any more subscribers. Wasn't it mean?" -