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added to shrewd common sense, imagination, wide sympathies, a vivid interest in every side of life, and the most ardent patriotism.... He was a highly successful playwright... a zealous social reformer, an expert criminologist, a connoisseur in good eating and drinking, in racing, in dogs, in
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213:, writing a weekly column of miscellany, "Mustard and Cress", under the pseudonym Dagonet, until his death. This was so successful that compilations of his verses from the paper, published as
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