Punch (95.1888)

September 29, 1888.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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"THESE ENGLISH ARE SHREWDLY OUT OF BEEF!"

Henry the Fifth, Act III., Sc. 7.

Lord Wolseley [to Tommy Atkins). " Why, bless me ! you look half starved ! What'll you take '

2 propos of " refreshing-," I have just dipped into Dr. Huefeer's
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt. Letter-writing- is to some of
us nuisance enough : letter-reading is worse. But in this case—

" Richard and Francis were two clever men;

Clever at music and clever with pen."
These two geniuses wrote their thoughts impulsively to each other.
Their letters are really the conversation of two earnest men, at one
in Art, hut at issue over the great prohlems of life. Here and there,
as naturally as possible, crop up business and domesticity. Of the
two " Special Correspondents," I prefer Liszt, who writes in a tone
of conviction, which, except as regards music, is absent from the

letters of Richard Wagner.-Strange Story of a Manuscript

found in a Copper Cylinder. Ought to have been left there. It is
advertised as a Jules-Yerne-like story, might he called a Verne-
and-Vater story. It is childish : and its improbahilities are rendered
still more improhahle by some of the pantomimic illustrations. Long
way down-hill after Verne. " Facilis descensus a Verne-o," says
the ever classical and always happily grammatical

Learned Baron De Book-Worms.

" Fine weather," said Mrs. Ram ; "hut these East winds are very
dangerous. My Nephew is laid up with an influential cold."