The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast

…way similarly revolutionary, was The Butterfly’s Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast (1807), by William Roscoe, a learned member of Parliament and writer on statistics. The gay and fanciful nonsense of this rhymed satiric social skit enjoyed, despite the seeming dominance of the moral Barbaulds and Trimmers, a roaring success. Great…