Punch (86.1884)

May 10, 1884.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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RABELAISIAN SITUATION.

How Sir Robert Peelagruel visits his Wrath oh the Presidenter of All the Arts ; how Thousands of Pounds

ARE SACRIFICED; AND OF THE CONTEMPT OF THE PRESIDENTER FOR THE “RIDICULOUS STATUE” MANDUKE, AND OF HIS TREATMENT

OF Peelagruel.

[“ The Royal Academy has said that the Statue was a disgrace to British Art.”. . . . “I feel bound to say that I look upon a great many
of the Royal Academy at the present day as a most dangerous and meretricious body. The Art-opinion of the Royal Academy is not worth
much.”—Sir Robert Peel’s Speech, Thursday, May 1]

SPORTING- INTELLIGENCE.

Opposition Leadership.—Latest Betting.

5 to 2 against Lord Randolph Churchill (t & w).

4 to 1 ,, Lord John Manners (off).

5 to 1 ,, Sir Richard Cross (nominal).

5 to 1 ,, Gibson (t).

7 to 1 ,, Jim Lowther (t & w).

7 to 1 ,, Sir Robert Peel (t & w).

8 to 1 ,, Hicks Beach (off).

10 to 1 ,, Lord Mayor (t & w).

100 to 1 ,, Ashmead-Bartlett (off ; no takers).

The following were scratched yesterday:—Goschen, Marriott,
Warton, Newdegate. The old Trainer says they are but a poor lot;
the old bins are little better than screws, and the new ’uns want a lot
more training. But he was always a severe critic, and his temper is
by no means improved by his late run of bad luck.

A Quaint Costume.

Speaking of Miss Grahame’s costume as Almida in Claudian at
Manchester, the British Architect says:—

“ Chiton and Mmation seemed not only to have been made exactly right,
but what was of far greater importance, they were worn as they ought to be,
without pins and stitches, and thus every movement of the body received
from the drapery its natural accompaniment, the whole himation flowing
away sometimes, not like a milliner’s drapery, but like a cascade.”

No pins and no stitches, and flowing away 'sometimes like a
cascade ? What an exceedingly inconvenient dress ! The only cha-
racter, as far as we can see, which would be appropriate in this
costume would he Undine.

A Most Respectable
Good Taste.

Body of Ecclesiastics.—The Canons of