Punch (86.1884)

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

[February 23, 1884.

“0 that those lips had language!”—Cowper.

“I feel sure that his bust here will inspire all who belong to this Club
with the sentiments which animated him up to the last moment of his life,
and will stimulate them to oppose a firm resistance to that feeble and apa-
thetic policy which he always struggled to defeat.”—Lord Salisbury at the
unveiling of Lord Beaconsfield's Bust at the St. Stephen’s Club, Feb. 13, 1884.

“ Few of those assembled at the St. Stephen’s Club can have driven out
of their heads the haunting thought that if Lord Beaconsfield were alive
he would look, with unmitigated contempt on the use his successors have
made of their opportunities in Parliament.”—Times.

Scene—Reading-Room of the St. Stephen's Cluh. The echoes of
the cheers following the Speeches of the Marquis of Salisbury
and Sir Stafford Northcote have died away. From the neigh-
bourhood of Signor Raggi’s white marble bust of Earl Beacons-
field (showing life-like in the moonlight) familiar accents seem
to break the silence :—•

Firm ! Nay, sweet Marquis, let the wriggling worm
Vaunt its insidious slide or sinuous squirm,

UNVEI LED —AN D UNAVAILING.

A “ Sermon in Stone ” at St. Stephen’s Club.

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