Punch: Punch (91.1886)

September 11, 1886.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI.

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" THE STRUGGLE."

Crcesua (in Coals, Mines, Ships, <fcc.). "Augh! How 'deuce you poor De'ls
wi' Fixed Incomes manage t'wub along—po'm'life 'can't imagine !"

THE SCOTTISH " THEATRE."

A capital Number of The Theatre Magazine for this month, edited by Mr.
Clement Scott. The portrait of Miss Henrietta Ltndley, who, at very short
notice, as we are informed, took the trying part of Jim the Penman's Wife
during Lady Monckton's absence from the Haymarket, and, considering; the
difficulties with which she had to contend, achieved a notable success. This
lady, says the Theatre, is "invaluable in modern comedy," and specially, we
should say, in light comedy. Also, in this Number is a brightly written and very
interesting paper in which the Abbe Feanz Liszt is Beatty-fied and Canon-ised
by Mr. Beatty-Kingston, who speaks of him as '' this Dantesque Magyar Priest,"
and in another place he says, '' He never, however, became an officiating Driest,
although Pope Pius the Ninth advanced him to the rank of Canonico in the
ecclesiastical hierarchy." And he recounts how Liszt complained to him that in
Paris and London he was always spoken of and addressed as " Abbe."

Now, Feanz Liszt was no more a Priest, " officiating " or not officiating, than
Mr. Beatty-Kingston himself. He received ''minor orders," without which he
could not have been made a "Canonicus." And if he did not become "sub-
deacon," as it is probable he did not, though generally this step is necessary for
a canonry, then, as neither the tonsure nor the first four orders carry any obliga-
tion of celibacy, the musical Canon was as free to marry, had he been " so dis-
posed," as is "any English bachelor. "Abbe" simply means "the Reverend
Mister," and is applied to any ecclesiastic. In England Liszt ought to have
been addressed as " Canon Liszt," just as we speak of " Canon Liddon."

Mr. Richard Lee in this Number concludes his biograiihical sketch of Samuel
Phelps, which is a more satisfactory performance than a work we recently came
across written by a Mr. Coleman, in which the proportion of Phelps to Cole-
man was as the halfpennyworth of bread to the intolerable amount of sack,
There are some Operatic Reminiscences, by M. Heeye, who—
" In spite of all temptation
To belong to his own nation,
Has become an Englishman,"
and signs himself " Chaeles Heevey." He has lately written to the effect
that "his fighting days are over"—which must be a consolation to France.
Mr. Austin Beeeeton's Foote is not long, but very readable, as is the whole
Number, in spite of Mr. Breeeton having put his " Foote " in it.

New Reading by the Czae, applied to the Othee One.—"A needless
Alexander."

CROMER CLOVER!

Tor; may trip and travel the whole world over.

From Finisterre's Cape to the Downs at Dover,

Be you Benedick bold or a bachelor rover,

You will rind no bed like the Cromer Clover !

I've visited Portugal, on to Spain,

Been over the sea and back again;

To Lisbon carried without any flurry

By the Drummond Castle of Donald Currie.

Beneath the balcony Tagus rolled,

Past Belim's cloisters bathed in gold,

But the cactus roads were at last forsook

For the Cintra Palace of English Cook :

And then in the cool and the welcome shade

A dozing, dreaming vow was made,

That the Cintra Paradise fair might be,

But still there was home and the Cromer sea!

Away to the Palace, the park of Cid,

To the burning desert where reigns Madrid,

To the endless nights and sun-struok days,

To ices, pictures, flirtings, plays,

To the lonely city where pleasure is full

When a brute has bullied a harmless bull;

Where the man, and woman, and child of course,

Delight in the scream of a tortured horse!

But the Bull-fight yells and the Prado hum

Were hush'd when a whispering voice said, " Come

To the land of poppies, the home of corn,

To thecliffs of fern, where from night to morn

There is nothing but rest and a welcome peace,

When the weary^voices of children cease,

And the stars shine out as the sun dies down,

To light a path to the Cromer town."

Secure on the cliffs, in the clover tossing,
In dreams I follow the Biscay crossing:
With body on land and eyes at sea,
I laugh, and think of the misery
Of fogs in Channel, and watch out-looking,
Of oil and garlic, and Spanish cooking,
Of endless travel by rail through sand,
Of the indolent pride of an idle land!
But oh ! the joy to be home once more
In the flowering fringe of a welcome shore,
To hear, as the breezes sweep my way,
The reaper's song and the child at play,
To watch the swallow, and mark the rhyme
Of the bee when buried in scented thyme,
To feel a presence, and hand in reach
High over the shout of the holiday beach,
To give up the part of a reckless rover,
And revel once more in the Cromer Clover!

FASHIONABLE INTELLIGENCE.

(Picked up during the present Financial Pressure.)

The marriage of the Hon. Chiselm Hardup with
Georgina, fifth daughter of the Earl of Catchpenny,
was solemnised yesterday at the Parish Church of St.
Mike's-in-the-Fieids. The company were subsequently
entertained at a stand-up breakfast at the tea-counter at
the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, when the happy pair,
having previously pledged the bulk of their wedding pre-
sents at a local pawnbrokers, started for Wimbledon,
where they contemplate spending a short honeymoon, by
one of the afternoon Putney Omnibuses.

The Duke of Baslnghall, having let the family seat
at Schedule Towers, the Duchess and her family have
removed from George Street, Paddington, to 113, Parade
Place, Heme Bay, where they purpose passing a brief
three weeks' season, previous to their return to the
suburbs to search for fresh apartments.

The Earl of Forfeit is entertaining a distinguished
company, including two Sheriff's officers and a man in
possession at his seat on the Scotch Moors. His Lordship
made a fine bag of grouse on Monday's shooting, but it
was eventually seized and carried off under a bill pf sale.

It is not true that Lord Backout has entirely given up
his yachting enterprise since the seizure of his own
vessel, The Official Assignee, for arrears. He has enterea
into an arrangement by which he and his iax^fj.om
journey continuously out and home for a montn
London Bridge to Boulogne, in the fore:cabin part o-tne
steampackets of the General Steam Navigation Company ^