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twg_000012923400 | the people to whom it has been entrusted, and who form a large proportion of the male inhabitants of the country; on them devolves the making of the laws by which the country is governed. They are bound to do their best to see that these laws are what they should be--equitable and righteous, and for the interest of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923401 | whole community. (_b_) This they can only do through their representatives. We could conceive of a state so small that each of its members could take a direct part in its government. That is not the case with us, and the people can only exercise their control through those they authorise to represent them. These they elect, and in electing | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923402 | them are bound to see that they are men who are worthy of the trust committed to them, who will make laws good for every class. This applies not only to the election of members of Parliament, but wherever the representative principle is carried out, as in the case of councils, school boards, and other forms of local government. Wherever | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923403 | a man exercises the privilege of choosing a representative, he is bound to do so conscientiously, and with an earnest desire to perform what is right. It is a maxim in law that what we do by another we do ourselves. We are responsible for those whom we choose to make our laws, and if we help to choose unworthy | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923404 | men we cannot be held blameless of the consequences that may follow. (_c_) As it is our duty to exercise this privilege of citizenship rightly, we are also bound not to refrain from exercising it. We hear people say sometimes that they have nothing to do with politics. But by keeping altogether aloof they cannot rid themselves of their responsibility. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923405 | By abstaining they may do almost as much to further the views they disapprove of as by taking an active part in promoting them. If there are evils in connection with government, the best way to get rid of them is for good men to take a part in public life, and try to bring about a better state of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923406 | things. In a free country no man can shake off his obligations by refraining from taking part in public affairs. The talent that is entrusted to us we are bound to use for the glory of God and the good of man. Our political power, however small, is such a talent, and we are responsible for its proper employment. . | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923407 | It is a duty of citizenship to take direct part in all that we believe is for the good of the state. We say a direct part, as distinguished from the indirect part we take in government through representatives. A man's duty as citizen does not end with the ballot-box, or with the election of members either to the national | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923408 | or local council. A great part of the business of the nation is carried on by the voluntary efforts of its members. There are men and women that have no part in representative government, who yet can discharge nobly the duties of citizenship. (_a_) All can take a part in forming a healthy public opinion. This is done in all | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923409 | free countries in various ways: through the press, through public meetings, and by means of the speech and communications of everyday life. If our views are those of a minority, we may help, by our influence, our example, the fearless expression of our convictions, to turn the minority into a majority; and in a democratic country the views of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923410 | majority will ultimately prevail. (_b_) We can also take direct part in promoting objects that tend to the well-being of society. Much is left by the state to voluntary effort by its members. The state undertakes the defence of the country by the army and navy, the relief of the poor, and the elementary education of the people; but beyond | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923411 | these and other instances of direct state action there is much left to be done by the people themselves, and for themselves. The Volunteer movement, in which men take part of their own free will, and which has been of so much benefit to the country; the erection and support of hospitals, libraries, art galleries, colleges and universities; the furnishing | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923412 | of the people with amusement and recreation--are illustrations of what may be done by members of the community directly. All such efforts tend to the welfare of the state. All its members reap benefit from them. He who does not help and encourage them is as mean as the man who would go to an hotel and take its entertainment, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923413 | and then sneak away without paying the reckoning. Whatever we can do to benefit society benefits ourselves, and in throwing ourselves heart and soul into any of those enterprises that benefit society we are discharging in a very special way the duties of good citizenship. It only remains to say in a word that our citizenship should be the outcome | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923414 | of our religion. Without that, citizenship loses its high position. He who fears God will honor the king, and he who "renders to God the things that are God's" will "render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's." He will give "to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923415 | to whom honor." Religion thus becomes the strength of the state, and "righteousness exalteth a nation." APPENDIX. The following is the list of the best hundred books referred to in . It is by Professor Blackie, Edinburgh, author of Self-Culture, and is given with his kind consent. I. HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. The Bible. Homer. Wilkinson's Ancient Egyptians. Max Von Dunche's | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923416 | History of the Ancient World. Plutarch's Lives. Herodotus. History of Greece--_Grote_ or _Curtius_. History of Rome--_Arnold_ or _Mommsen_. Menzel's History of the Germans. Green's History of the English People. Life of Charlemagne. Life of Pope Hildebrand. The Crusades. Sismondi's History of the Italian Republics. Prescott's America. Prescott's Ferdinand and Isabella. Italy, by _Professor Spalding_. Chronicles, by _Froissart_. The Normans--_Freeman_ and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923417 | _Thierry_. Motley's Dutch Republic. Life of Gustavus Adolphus. The French Revolution--_Thiers, Carlyle, Alison_. Bourrienne's Life of Napoleon. Wellington's Peninsular Campaign. Southey's Life of Nelson. America--_Bancroft_. The Stuart Rising of , by _Robert Chambers_. Carlyle's Life of Cromwell. Foster's Statesmen of the Commonwealth. Life of Arnold--_Stanley_. Life of Dr. Norman Macleod. Life of Baron Bunsen. Neander's Church History. Life of Luther. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923418 | History of Scottish Covenanters--_Dodds_. Dean Stanley's Jewish Church. Milman's Latin Christianity. II. RELIGION AND MORALS. The Bible. Socrates or Plato and Xenophon. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus' Meditations. Epictetus Seneca. The Hitopadion and Dialogues of Krishna. St. Augustine's Confessions. Jeremy Taylor. Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress. Martineau. Aesop's Fables. III. POETRY AND FICTION. Homer. Virgil. Dante. The Niebelungen Lay. The Morte D'Arthur. Chaucer. Shakespeare. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923419 | Spenser. Goethe--Faust, Meister, and Eckermann's Conversations. Milton. Pope. Cowper. Campbell. Wordsworth. Walter Scott. Burns. Charles Lamb. Dean Swift, "Tale of a Tub" and "Gulliver's Travels." Tennyson. Browning. Don Quixote. Goldsmith, "Vicar of Wakefield." George Eliot. Dickens. Robinson Crusoe. Andersen's Fairy Tales, "Mother Bunch." Grimm's Popular Songs and Ballads, especially Scotch, English, Irish and German. IV. FINE ARTS. Ferguson's History of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923420 | Architecture. Ruskin. Tyrwhitt. V. POLITICS AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. De Tocqueville. John Stuart Mill. Fawcett. Laveleye. Adam Smith. Cornewall Lewis. Lord Brougham. Sir J. Lubbock. VI. SCIENCE AND PHILOLOGY. J. G. Wood's Books on Natural History. White's Natural History of Selbourne. Geology--_Hugh Miller, Ramsey, Geikie, Ansted_. Botany--General Elements of British. Science of Language--_Trench_ and _Farrar, Max Mller_. Taylor's Words and Places. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923421 | VII. VOYAGES AND TRAVEL. In every variety; especially the old collections. LIST OF WORKS. The following is a list of works upon topics treated in this text-book, which have been consulted in its preparation, and which may be useful to students: _Self-Culture_, by John Stuart Blackie. Edinburgh: David Douglas. Twentieth edition. . _Plain Living and High Thinking, or Practical Self-Culture--Moral, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923422 | Mental and Physical_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. London: John Hogg, Paternoster Row. . _The Secret of Success_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. London: John Hogg, Paternoster Row. . _The Threshold of Life_, by W. H. Davenport Adams. T. Nelson & Sons, Paternoster Row. . _On the Threshold_, by Theodore T. Munger. London: Ward, Lock & Co. . _Beginning Life_, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923423 | by John Tulloch, D.D. London: Chas. Burnet & Co. . _Life: a Book for Young Men_, by J. Cunninghame Geikie. London: Strahan & Co. . _The Gentle Life_, by J. Hain Friswell. London: Sampson Low & Marston. . _Self-Culture_, by James Freeman Clarke. Boston: J. R. Osgood & Co. . _Life Questions_, by M. J. Savage. Boston: Lockwood, Brooks & | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923424 | Co. . _Elements of Morality, for Home and School Teaching_, by Mrs. Chas. Bray. London: Longmans, Green & Co. . _The Family and its Duties_, by Robert Lee, D.D. London: Longmans, Green & Co. . _Christianity in its Relation to Social Life_, by Rev. Stephen J. Davis. London: Religious Tract Society. _Home Life_, by Marianne Farningham. London: James Clarke & | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923425 | E-text prepared by V. L. Simpson, Malcolm Farmer, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See -h.htm or -h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs//////-h/-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs//////-h.zip) PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI VOL. FEBRUARY , [Illustration] UNTILED; OR, THE MODERN ASMODEUS. "Trs volontiers," repartit le dmon. "Vous | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923426 | aimez les tableaux changeans: je veux vous contenter." _Le Diable Boiteux._ XVIII. "'MRS. MCENAS!' So some would-be wit Dubbed the fair dame. The title may not fit With accurate completeness; It soars some shades too high, this modish _mot_, As 'Mrs. LYON-HUNTER' sinks too low; Both nick-names fail in neatness. "The '_acu tetigisti_,' tribute rare, Not oft is earned, in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923427 | Fleet Street or Mayfair, In these hot days of hurry. _Salons_, Symposia, both have met their doom, And wit, in the Victorian drawing-room, Finds a fell foe in flurry." So spake the Shadow, with the covert sneer That struck so coldly on the listening ear. Soft was his speech, as muffled By some chill atmosphere surcharged with snow, In unemphatic | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923428 | accents, level, low, Unhasting and unruffled. "Mrs. MCENAS, then, no HORACE finds In all her muster of superior minds, Her host of instant heroes? That's hard!" I said. "She does not greatly care," My guide rejoined. "Behold her seated there! Her court's as full as NERO'S. "SENECA stands beside her. He's a prim, Sententious sage. If she is bored by | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923429 | him, The lady doth not show it. But there's a furtive glancing of her eye Toward the entry. There comes MARX M'KAY, The Socialistic Poet. "His lyric theories mean utter smash To all his hostess cares for. Crude and rash, But musically 'precious.' His passionate philippics against Wealth Mammon's own daughters read, 'tis said, by stealth, And vote them 'quite | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923430 | delicious!' "All that makes life worth living to the throng Of worshippers who mob this Son of Song, Money, Monopoly, Merriment, He bans and blazes at in 'Dir' dread; But then they know his Muse is merely Red In metrical experiment. "Well-dressed and well-to-do, the flaming Bard Finds life in theory only harsh and hard. His _chevelure_ looks shaggy, But | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923431 | his black broad-cloth's glossy and well-brushed, And he'd feel wretched if his tie were crushed, His trousers slightly baggy. "KARL MARX in metre or LASSALLE in verse, The vampire-horde of Capital he'll curse, And praise the Proletariat; But having thus delivered his bard-soul, He finds it, practically, nice to loll With DIVES in his chariot. "Lyrical Communism will not fright | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923432 | Those 'Molochs of the Mart' this Son of Light Keeps his poetic eye on. 'Who takes a Singer _au grand srieux_?' Mrs. MCENAS asks. So he's on view, Her Season's latest lion. "But not alone," I said. "If all this host Are right authentic Leos, she must boast As potent charm as CIRCE'S. What is her wand? Is't wit, or | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923433 | wealth, or both?" "Listen! That's MUMPS the mimic, nothing loth, Rolling out VAMPER'S verses! "VAMPER looks on and smiles with veiled delight. Boredom's best friends are fellows who recite. None like, not many listen, But all must make believe to stand about And watch a man gesticulate and shout, With eyes that glare and glisten. "'Tis hard indeed to hold | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923434 | in high esteem The man who mouths out _Eugene Aram's Dream_ In guttural tones and raucous. All these have heard a hundred times before Young Vox, the vain and ventriloquial bore They'd fain despatch to Orcus. "So have they listened many and many a time To little JINKS, the jerky comic mime, And his facetious chatter. But ill would fare | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923435 | Town's guest if he refused For the five hundredth time to be 'amused' By gush, or cockney patter. "HORACE'S _Piso_ were a pleasant chum Compared with slangy laureates of the slum. Hist! There's a tenor twitter, A tremulous twangle of the minor strings. 'Tis SERAPHIN, sleek Amateur, who sings, 'Glide where the moonbeams glitter!' "'To puling girls that listen and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923436 | adore Your love-lorn chants and woful wailings pour!' Sang HORACE to HERMOGENES. SERAPHIN'S a TIGELLIUS, and his style Would bring the bland Venusian's scornful smile The scowl of sour DIOGENES. "'Twere 'breaking butterflies upon the wheel' To let such fribbles feel the critic steel With scalpel-like severity? Granted! But will no pangs the victims urge To abate that plague of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923437 | bores, which is the scourge Of social insincerity? "Wisdom is here, and Wit, Talent and Taste: The latest wanderer from the Tropic Waste, Sun-bronzed and care-lined, saunters In cheery chat with mild-faced MIRABEL, Who with Romance's wildest weirdest spell Has witched your Mudie-haunters. "Colossal BAYARD, _beau-sabreur_, whose blade A dozen desert spearmen faced and stayed, Stoops his high-shoulder'd stature To | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923438 | hear the twittering tones of Tiny TIM, A midget, but the soul of whit and whim, The genius of good-nature. "Boy-faced, but virile, vigorous, and a peer, Lord MOSSMORE talks with VIOLET DE VERE, The latest light of Fiction; Steadily-rising statesman, season's star! Calmly he hears, though Caste's keen instincts jar, Her strained self-conscious diction. "MELDRUM, the modish _medico_, laughs | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923439 | low At ruddy RASPER'S keenly-whispered _mot_-- RASPER, a soul all strictures, Holds the great world a field for sketchy chaff. Many love not the man, but how they laugh At his swift, scathing pictures! "Wits of all grades, and Talents of all sorts, With rival beauties holding separate courts, Find here parade, employment. And yet, and yet, they all look | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923440 | cross, or tired; Your cultured city has not yet acquired The art of true enjoyment. "Strange! London's poor find pleasure far too dear, But here, with wealth, and wit, and charm, and cheer, All should go _so_ delightfully. Time gay as in the Golden Age should fleet, But the most brilliant stars in Babylon meet, And--bore each other frightfully." (_To | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923441 | be continued._) * * * * * IN THE NAME OF CHARITY--GO TO PRISON! LAST week _Mr. Punch_ asked, "Oh, where, and oh where, is The Public Prosecutor?" and he has received an answer. It appears that the official has been recently engaged (his letter is dated the 30th of November) in suppressing an "illegal scheme" to aid the funds | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923442 | of the North-West London Hospital. It appears that, with a view to increasing the revenue of that most deserving charity, it was arranged to treat some presents that had been made to the Institution as "prizes," to be given to those who sent donations to the hospital. There was to be a "drawing," which was to be duly advertised in | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923443 | the daily papers. But this could not be tolerated. Sir A. K. STEPHENSON, Solicitor to Her Majesty's Treasury, after denouncing the scheme in the terms above set forth, informed the Secretary of the Hospital, "that all persons concerned therein subjected themselves to the penalties imposed by the Acts passed for the suppression of illegal lotteries." Well, the law is the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923444 | law, and it would never do for _Mr. Punch_ to dispute the point with so learned a gentleman as Sir A. K. STEPHENSON--the more especially as Sir A. K. S. has just been patented a Q.C.--but if the Public Prosecutor can stop "illegal schemes" for benefiting the sick, why can he not also deal with the professional perjurers, suborners of | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923445 | witnesses, and fabricators of false evidence? _Mr. Punch_ pauses for a reply, but is disinclined to pause much longer! * * * * * OUR TURN NOW.--An excited paragraph in the morning papers announces that "two Doctors of Vienna have succeeded in discovering the Influenza _bacillus_ after a series of experiments in the Chemical and Physiological Laboratory of the University." | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923446 | This is capital. Hitherto the Influenza _bacillus_ has discovered _us_. Now the tables are turned, and the question is, What shall we do with our prize? A little transaction in boiling lead might not be bad to begin with. * * * * * [Illustration: AN OLD FABLE. _Frog._ "I MEAN TO BE AS BIG AS YOU, ONE DAY, AND | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923447 | SWALLOW YOU UP. BUST IF I DON'T!"] * * * * * A "FISH OUT OF WATER" AT GREENWICH. In a not very wise speech delivered while presiding at the opening of a new series of lectures in connection with the Greenwich Branch of the Society for the Extension of University Teaching, Lord WOLSELEY modestly admitted "that whatever information he | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923448 | had acquired in life had been acquired from the ordinary penny newspaper which he had read day by day." No doubt this rather humiliating fact accounts for the florid style of the proclamations "Our Only General" used to publish in Egypt and elsewhere--proclamations at the time recognised as having the tone of Astley's in the good old days of the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923449 | _Battle of Waterloo_ and other military melodramas. However, if it pleases Lord WOLSELEY to give materials for a future biography, that is no one's concern but his own. Unfortunately he touched upon another matter, about which he knows evidently very little, if anything at all. His Lordship spoke in very disrespectful terms of what he called the "Shilling Dreadful," which, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923450 | he declared (in this instance accurately enough), was "prized by many people." Certainly the novelette is more popular than _The Soldier's Pocket-book_, although both _brochures_ are equally works of imagination. So it should be, considering that amongst the authors who have produced it have been WILKIE COLLINS, HUGH CONWAY, F. ANSTEY, ROBERT BUCHANAN, GRANT ALLEN, WALTER BESANT, RHODA BROUGHTON, and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923451 | others equally well known to fame. He concluded by remarking, "that if men of all politics were to be shaken up in a bag, he believed there would be very little difference between them." Quite true, if the bag were shaken sufficiently long to complete the transformation--but it would be rather a brutal experiment! * * * * * A | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923452 | PAGE FROM A DIARY. (_Purely Imaginary._) _First Week._--Now let me see what I have to do. I will leave out of consideration my extra-parliamentary utterances--they will take care of themselves. Shan't forget _them_. But other matters. Well, I have to turn the works of my dear old friend ALF TENNYSON into Greek--of course, omitting certain highly injudicious lines of a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923453 | reactionary character. Then I must read through the last edition of the _Encyclopdia Britannica_. No skipping, but go through _every_ article thoroughly and conscientiously. Then, of course, there is Grand Day at Gray's Inn. Must _not_ forget that. Should like, above all things, to be present. Now let me see that I have got the date all right. Yes, I | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923454 | remember. Grand Day, Hilary Term. Falls on a Thursday. I shan't forget. _Second Week._--Translation of TENNYSON into Greek going on famously. Not had time to cut down any trees, so busy have I been. Got as far as "Foghorn" in _Encyclopdia Britannica_. New edition a very good one. Glad I made up my mind to read it. Let me see, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923455 | anything else? Why, to be sure, Grand Day at Gray's Inn! Rather cut off my hand or even my head, than forget _that_! Treasurer particularly nice man. So are all the Benchers. So are all the Barristers and the Students. Excellent fellows, all of them--yes, excellent. So must not forget Grand Day at Gray's Inn. To be sure. Falls on | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923456 | a Thursday. _Third Week._--_A. T._ progressing nicely. Little difficulty about the translation of the _Northern Farmer_. Rather awkward to give the proper weight of a country dialect in Greek. However, it reads very well, indeed! Think my dear old friend ALF will be pleased with it; he should be, as it has given me a good deal of trouble. However, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923457 | all's well that ends well. _E. B._ also satisfactory. Got into the "D's." Article upon the "Docks," scarcely exhaustive enough to please me, so have been reading some other books upon the same subject. Forgotten nothing? No, because I remember I have to dine at Gray's Inn. Yes, to be sure--23rd of January. Grand Day. Hilary Term. Falls on a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923458 | Thursday. Would not forget it to save my election! Looking forward to the port. Excellent port at Gray's Inn, I am told. Well, well, I shall be there! I don't believe much in artificial memory, but to assist my recollection, I have tied knots in all my pocket-handkerchiefs. Wouldn't forget the fixture for a kingdom. Falls on a Thursday. _Fourth | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923459 | Week._--Finished Greek translation of TENNYSON'S Poems. Very pleased with the result. Must send a copy to dear old ALF. Perhaps it might suggest to him that it would be a graceful compliment in return to translate all my speeches into Latin verse. Dear old friend! There is not another man to whom I would entrust such a task with equal | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923460 | heartiness. He would do it _so_ well. Must look up my earlier orations. If ALF does _any_ of it, he should do it _all_. I do not believe in half measures. Nearly finished the _E. B._ Article upon "Music" very interesting. "Pigs" not so good; however "Wheel-barrows" excellent and exhaustive. Rather angry to find knots in my handkerchiefs, &c., until | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923461 | I suddenly remembered they were to remind me of my engagement to dine at Gray's Inn. To be sure. Grand Day, Hilary Term. Falls on a Thursday. Sure to be a delightful evening. Several of my young Irish friends are members of the Society. I am looking forward to it _so_ much. Useful things, knots. Remembered it at once! Tie | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923462 | them again. Also put _grey_ wideawake hat over clock in my study. That will remind me of _Gray's_ Inn. Falls on a Thursday! _Last Week._--There, now I can come to this book with a clear conscience. Done everything. Greek translation of TENNYSON ready for press. Finished letter "Z" last night, in final volume of the _Encyclopdia Britannica_. Nothing omitted. Rather | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923463 | annoyed to find someone has been tying knots in my handkerchief. Hate practical jokes! Careless person, too, has been hanging my old grey wideawake on the clock in my study. Rather a liberty! Don't like liberties. Always courteous to _everybody_--consequently, expect _everybody_ to be courteous to _me_! Still, can't help smiling. It _was_ a quaint idea to hang my old | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923464 | wideawake on the clock in my study. I wonder what put such a freak into the joker's head! Now let me look at the paper that has just reached me from London. Dear me, "The Vacant Chair." That seems a good title. And all about Gray's Inn! Now, I like Gray's Inn--a most excellent place; everyone connected with it great | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923465 | friends of mine. And writing of Gray's Inn, that reminds me--Good gracious! Why, last night was Thursday, and I forgot to be there!!! * * * * * [Illustration: REFRESHMENTS IN VOGUE. "QUININE OR ANTIPYRINE, MY LADY?"] * * * * * MENU-BETTING. GENTLEMEN who bet on every event in life--who cut cards to decide whether they shall go into | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923466 | the City by cab or by underground train, and toss up to see whether they had better dine at home or at the Club, may be interested to know of a new game of chance which can be played at dinnertime, and in which ladies not only may but must take part. "Betting on the _menu_" it is called; and | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923467 | it is done in this way. You ask the lady next to you on the right--the one you have taken in to dinner--permission to speculate as to what dishes she will choose from among those inscribed on the _menu_; and you back your selection in a series of bets either with the lady herself, or--if she happens not to be | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923468 | what the French call "_sportive_"--with any gentleman who may be willing to do business with you. Suppose the lady takes you? You make a pencil-mark against each dish which, it seems to you, she will fancy; and if you are right more often than you are wrong, you win--and the lady does not pay you. In the contrary case you | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923469 | lose--and you pay the lady. It need scarcely be said that you annotate your own copy of the _menu_, and that the lady does not see it until the dinner is at an end. The same principle is observed in betting with a gentleman in reference to a lady's probable selection; but in this latter case neither of the parties | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923470 | interested is at liberty to express any opinion, directly or indirectly, as to the merits or demerits of the different dishes from which the lady has to choose. Any member of the unfair sex may make sure of winning from her antagonist--who will naturally have marked a certain number of dishes--by simply abstaining from food throughout the dinner; though the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923471 | lady of the house might think this impolite. _Menu_-betting is in any case an agreeable pastime for both sexes. It promotes digestion; and any woman of moderate ability may make money by it. * * * * * "MORE LIGHT!"--The British Museum is, it appears, presently to be opened at night, its (Elgin) marble halls and others being illuminated with | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923472 | the electric light. Concurrently with this happy event Mr. LOUIS FAGAN, of the Departments of Prints and Drawings, announces a course of three popular lectures on the Treasures of the Museum, to be delivered next month at the Steinway Hall. No one knows more about the Museum than Mr. FAGAN, and, with the assistance of photographic reproductions, exhibited by oxyhydrogen | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923473 | light, he will teach the public a thing or two about its foundation, progress, and present contents. * * * * * [Illustration: PHENOMENAL. NEAR-SIGHTED MAN IN CHURCH, INSPECTING SHAM INSECT ON LADY'S BONNET. HE IS SO EXCITED BY THE DISCOVERY, THAT HE HURRIES OUT OF CHURCH IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SERVICE, IN ORDER TO WRITE TO THE PAPERS | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923474 | TO ANNOUNCE THE SUDDEN APPEARANCE OF A MAGNIFICENT SPECIMEN OF THE LARGE TORTOISE-SHELL BUTTERFLY ON OUR SHORES IN MID-JANUARY, AS A PROOF OF THE MILDNESS OF THE CLIMATE.] * * * * * AMONG THE AMATEURS. No. IV.--RETROSPECT. SCENE--_A large Room, in which Guests are assembling previous to a Supper in honour of a Great Actor, who is about to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923475 | leave for a tour to the United States. There has been a magnificent farewell performance, in which the Great Actor has surpassed himself. The public has shown unparalleled enthusiasm; the G. A. has appeared before the Curtain, and in a voice choked with emotion has assured his audience that the one thing that sustains him at this trying moment is | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923476 | the prospect of seeing them all again when he returns._ TIME--. P.M. _The Room is full of histrionic, literary, and artistic Celebrities, with a few stray Barristers and Doctors, who like to show publicly that in spite of the arduous labours of their professions, they can enjoy a mild dissipation as well as any man. Most of the leading lights | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923477 | of the "Thespian Perambulators,"_ BOLDERO, TIFFINGTON SPINKS, GUSHBY, ANDREW JARP, _and_ HALL, _have come to prove by their presence the sympathy of the Amateur Stage. On the last night but one they had concluded their series of performances at Blankbury. The Chairman of the Banquet is a middle-aged Peer, who is a regular attendant at first nights, and occupies a | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923478 | subordinate office in the Ministry. The Guest of the Evening has not yet arrived. A buzz of conversation fills the air. The Secretary of the Banquet, an actor, is anxiously hurrying about with a list, on which he ticks off names._ _The Secretary_ (_to_ BOLDERO). So glad all you fellows have been able to come. I've put you pretty well | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923479 | together, as you wished. I wonder where--oh! here he is at last. _Enter Great Actor. The Secretary rushes to him. Hand-shakings and congratulations all round. The G. A. moves up the room to where the Amateurs are standing._ _G. A._ (_shaking hands._) Ah! this is really friendly, TIFFINGTON, really friendly. Were you in front to-night? _Tiffington._ Of course we were. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923480 | We wouldn't have missed it for a thousand pounds. It went first class. I thought your idea of stabbing ALPHONSO from behind instead of in front, was a genuine inspiration. _G. A._ Approbation from Sir HUBERT. (_Bows and leaves quotation unfinished_). But I've always played it like that, I think. [_Supper is announced. The Guests troop in to the supper-room._ | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923481 | _Tiffington_ (_to_ JARP, _as they walk in_). He's wrong there. Never did it like that before; and, after all, I'm not sure it is such an improvement. But if you don't praise these fellows they never forgive you. _Jarp._ Didn't he say anything about our show at Blankbury? I thought you wrote to him about it. _Tiffington._ So I did; | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923482 | wrote specially to tell him how well things had gone off. But you might just as well try to pump wine out of a pillar-box, as expect a word of sympathy or encouragement from a professional. They're all the same. [_They take their seats,_ TIFFINGTON _and_ JARP _on one side of the table, the other three opposite them. The supper | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923483 | begins._ _Friend of the G. A._ (_on_ TIFFINGTON's _right_). Splendid performance, was it not? I never saw him in finer form in my life. It's quite impossible to imagine anything more dignified and pathetic than his death-scene. _Tiffington_ (_dubiously_). Hum! Yes. I'm not sure I should do it like that quite. What do you say, GUSHBY? _Gushby._ It's not my | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923484 | idea at all. He spins it out far too long. I should like to see you act that, TIFF. _Tiffington_ (_complacently_). Ah, well, so you might if things were managed with common fairness. But (_bitterly_) you know well enough there's a regular conspiracy against me. (_To Friend of G. A._) Now, of course, you've read the notices of our performance | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923485 | of _Heads or Tails_? Yes. I thought you had. Well, you _must_ have observed, that I don't get more than two lines in any one of them, not a word more than two lines upon my soul, and yet any fool knows that my part was the chief one. But there you are. The beggars daren't abuse me. They know | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923486 | the public won't stand that, so, just to spite me, they try to leave me out. But they're very much mistaken if they think I care. Pooh! I snap my fingers at them and their wretched conspiracy. [_Snaps them, and drinks moodily. The supper proceeds. Conversation everywhere ranges over all kinds of topics,--literature, art, the drama, the political situation, the | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923487 | last Divorce Case. The Amateurs continue to discuss themselves._ _Jarp_ (_to_ BOLDERO). Did you see that infamous notice in _The Moonbeam_? Just like that rascal PENFOLD. He can't help showing his jealousy, because we never asked him to join the Perambulators. _Boldero._ Yes. There you have it in a nutshell. I tell you what it is, we shall have to | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923488 | exclude all critics from our show in future. _Tiffington._ Ah! that would punish them--and serve them right, too. Are you going to sing to-night, HALL? _Hall_ (_with a sigh of resignation_). I suppose I shall have to. I told BATTERDOWN I should be ready, if wanted. _Jarp._ Have you got anything new? _Hall._ Rather. Something particularly neat, I think. I | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923489 | call it "_The Super at Supper_." It goes like this:-- [_Hums to his friends, who listen with rapt attention, occasionally interchanging glances expressive of enthusiastic admiration._ I once knew a Super, a festive soul, Who quaffed champagne from a brimming bowl, And all night long as he quaffed he sang, "The Dukes may swing, and the Earls go hang, And | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923490 | the Duchesses, 'drat 'em, may go and be blowed; They've all been there, and they know the road-- They're slaves, but the Super who sups is free-- Oh! the Super's life is the life for me! _Chorus._ With a hey-diddle-diddle and fiddle-di-dee, Oh! the supping Super's the man for me!" _Spinks, Boldero, Gushby, Jarp_ (_with enthusiasm_). My dear fellow, that's | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923491 | immense. _Hill._ Yes, it's not bad. There are six verses, some of them even better than that. [_The Chairman rises to propose the only toast of the evening, "Success to the Great Actor who is about to leave us for a short time." The usual speech--reminiscent, anecdotic, prophetic of tremendous triumphs, mildly humorous, pathetic._ _The Chairman_ (_concluding_). Therefore I bid | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923492 | you all charge your glasses as full of wine as your hearts are full of sympathy, and join me in wishing success to the Great Man, who is about to cull new laurels in a foreign land. [_Roars of applause. Immense enthusiasm. The Great Actor responds. He is moved to tears. He assures his friends, that wherever he may go | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923493 | his heart will ever turn fondly to them. Great cheering._ _Tiffington_ (_puffing his cigar_). Not so bad. I always said he could speak better than he could act. [_The supper concludes._ HALL _has not been asked to sing._ _Friend of Great Actor_ (_departing, to_ TIFFINGTON). It's been a splendid evening, hasn't it? _Tiffington_ (_putting on his coat_). Yes. Pretty fair. | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923494 | (_To_ HALL.) Sorry for you, old chap. But the song will keep. _Hall._ Keep? Oh, yes, it'll keep. I'll make it red-hot for the lot of 'em, and sing it at Blankbury next year. They won't like that, I rather think. _Jarp._ No, by Gad! [_Exeunt omnes._ * * * * * THE SHREWING OF THE TAME. DEAR MR. PUNCH, | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923495 | MR. F. R. BENSON deserves commendation for a new idea. SHAKSPEARE has been presented in many forms, but the notion of giving the Bard without any acting to speak of is a novelty. And it is not quite certain that it is a mistake. After all, a bad actor is an infliction, and it is better to have gentlemen who | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923496 | have not spent centuries in mastering the intricacies of their profession than a noisy personage who tears his passions to atoms. The recent revivals of _A Midsummer Night's Dream_ and the _Taming of the Shrew_ at the Globe Theatre show how pleasing Shakspearian representations may be made, even when their success depends less upon elocution than scenic effect. The first | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923497 | of these plays was simply delightful, with its fairy glades and "built-up" temples. The last, too, is well off for "cloths," pleasingly representing Padua and Verona. The performers (with the exception of Mr. STEPHEN PHILLIPS, who speaks his lines with admirable effect) are not so noticeable. One of the best-played parts in the piece is filled by an actor whose | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923498 | name does not appear in the programme. He has nothing to do but to carry off _Katherina_ (Mrs. F. R. BENSON), in Sc. ., Act III., on his back. That he looks like an ass while doing this goes without saying, but still he is a valuable addition to the cast. From an announcement in the programme, it appears that | 60 | gutenberg |
twg_000012923499 | _Othello_, _Hamlet_, and the _Merchant of Venice_ are shortly to be played. It seems at the first blush a difficult task to pick out of Mr. BENSON'S present company a gentleman quite suited to fill the title _rles_ in the two first, and _Shylock_ in the last. But, no doubt, the Lessee and Manager thinks the playing of the characters | 60 | gutenberg |
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