1903.
It is with the deepest regret on the part of all connected with "Phil May's Annus] that this issue of the Winter Number of 1903 app-ars when the brilliant and kindly-hearted jester of the pen and pencil hasjbeen laid to rest.
Of the masterly venins so abruptly cut off in the fatal thirties" it is not our pose here ty attempt " commendation. Alroudy the aurals of fume Phil May had xo bravely and worthily won lie thick upon his grave; and it can be boldly prophesied that Time, that test of temporary triumph, ill need the aid of many years tu. even dim their lustre.
Of the mau, Phil May, himself, to know him was t" love him,"—for even tit un-English use of the word, when applied between men, is excusable in this case.
he tragedy of toil marked his earliest ears, but left no trace of embitterment on his latter days. His generous heart. was eyened only the more readily to any tale of sorrow and failure by the memories of his and Who can sxy struggling youth" which enacted the toll that finally closed the merry magician's life Tue Epitor.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.