Punch: Punch (97.1889)

September 21, 1889.]

PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI

station, or a cholera hospital. It
must be a cheerful place in winter,
yet, as snow never lies there (so at
least I am informed, and I have no
reason for suspecting my informant
of being the very converse of the snow
in this district), and as its climate is

mild, if a fashionable doctor would
only take up Lundy as a hibernating
resort for consumptive patients, there
is yet a great future before it. We
return to take up friends at Clovelly,
where, on this hot day, they have been
scarcely able to breathe, and have had
to fight for their lives with wasps.
Stuffy place Clovelly ; built like one
of the back streets in Boulogne,—
where the fishermen and fisherwomen
live, and hang out their nets to dry,
—that is on steps from the sea up to
the top, a matter of about half a

mile, more or less, in the Up-early-
and-very-perpendicular style.

Nearly all the fishermen’s cottages
are let out in lodgings, and, if not,
they are turned into refreshment-
places, chiefly for tea-drinking. The
residents make a great display of
china on their shelves. In byegone
days the china at Clovelly was pro-
bably genuinely valuable, but now-
adays its appearance is suggestive
of having been sent down on spec
from the Lowther Arcade. Another
day, when we visited this place,
and drove through the beautiful
“Hobby Drive” (why so called?
except that, to make such a drive,
was the landlord’s “hobby”), there
had been a heavy fall of rain, and
we saw Clovelly below us, literally
steaming, like a damp sheet laid out
on a shelving bank to dry in the sun.

From above Clovelly looks like the
remains of a village whieh had once
taken it into its head to slide down
the steep incline towards the sea,
and, half of it having disappeared,
the remainder had changed its mind,
and put on the drag just in time.
Clovelly is the production of several
generations of fishers, but it was
“made” by Mr. Hook, R.A. You
will recognise his boatmen and sea-
boys still about the place, as it is to
the interest of the inhabitants to,
as it were, keep up the breed. Here,
on the old pier, within the space be-
tween the rail and the beacon-light,
a tight fit for one average woman,
are supposed to have sat Kingsley’s
three wives, I mean, the wives of his
Three Fishers. Evidently a stretch
of imagination. The pier is the oldest
pier of the realm, belonging to the
peerage of flicua no the Second.

Nursery Rhyme.
Dickory, Dickory, Dock !

The Cardinal picked the dead lock.
The men struck. Then
They worked agen,

Dickory, Victory, Dock!

Pleasant Pbospect in Holiday-
time.—The competitors for the prize
to be given for the best Essay on the
International Monetary System will
send their Manuscripts to Mr. Gos-
chen, who, it is hoped, “will consent
to act as Judge.” This is too much
of a side-splitter even for that man of
metal, our own John Jokin’. Being
out for a holiday, let him stick to his
coinof ’vantage, and ref use the honour.

" RAISING THE CT

Cardinal Manning. “There, that's bight! Both es Reasonable, and work together.

Bless you, my Children!”

OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

Who has read “ A Ghostly Manifestation,” in the July Number of Murray's Magazine, by “ A
Clergyman,” who withholds his name, and gives no clue as to the time or place of this “ Manifesta-
tion”? I can strongly recommend it to all lovers of the marvellous, though the effect is somewhat
discounted by there being nothing marvellous in the fact of the author remaining anonymous and
being silent upon all points that ought to assist investigation. No matter, it is a good story for all that.
Let’s hope it’s true. It would afford excellent material for the Spiritualistic Conference sitting in
Paris.

Mr. Frank A. Marshall is to be congratulated, as are also his talented assistants, on the
Sixth Volume of the Henry Irving Shakspeare, containing Othello, Antony and Cleopatra,
Coriolanus and Lear. Strong dramatis personce. Among the talented assistants who have done
excellent work are Mr. Joseph Knight, The First Knight Critic, Mr. Arthur Symons, who has
worked with a will, and at a Will. The literary forces being thus marshalled, F. M. himself was,
unfortunately, not well enough to appear. Mr. Oscar Fay Adams assisted Mr. Verity with King
Lear, and shows himself quite “ 0. Fay” with his subject. Some of the illustrations, by
Messrs. Margetson and Gordon Browne, are uncommonly good. In Desdemona there is a
suggestion of Miss Ellen Terry, and in Cleopatra a hint of . Sarah Bernhardt. What a
Cleopatra she would make! Could Mrs. Bernard Beere do it? A magnificent spectacle it
might be made, and there is scope for very fine acting.. In this admirably arranged edition of
Shakspeare it is interesting to see how much of the original has always been omitted for stage
representation, and instructive to read the history of each play’s representations.

The Baron de Book-Worms.

Good for Hymn.—The Fall-Mall Gazette wished that the termination of the strike could have
been celebrated by a grand service at St. Paul’s, when Cardinal Manning should officiate, .Mr.
Burns preach, and other fancy religionists sing hymns of praise. Were such a jumble possible,
of course the one chorus of praise which the Strikers would 1 strike up, and in which all would
join, would be The Docks- ology.