Excerpt from A Second Century of Charades

T has always seemed to me that charades, like I rhymes, were addressed to the ear, and not to the eye, and that if the sounds were correct, the spelling was a matter of no importance. On the other hand, a Charade in which the parts conform to the spell ing, but depart from the sound, appears to me faulty. The fault may be condoned, but it ought not to be commended. In my first volume I claimed, though I scarcely used, the right to make charades of this character. In this second volume the reader will find them numerous.

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