We regret to see that the Astociation of Queen and Queen Regent of the Nether-Lady Guides is defunct. The St. James's lands are not very flattering. There is a tells us capital portrait of Irving as Edgar, while It is understood that, during the last twelve the cartoon is somewhat stale. "Salva-months, a great number of gentlemen from the tion' in the Drawing-Room " is a very well-Continent have arrived in London and driven drawn picture. The Pull Mall leaves the directly to the office of the Association of Parnell business very much alone, and has Lady Guides. They wished to be personally conducted about London. But they were not the following wote as to the desirability of long in realising the inhospitality of the cold a Stanley Commission north. They all met with the same inflexible The replies of Lord Salisbury and Mr. reply from the interpretress Smith to the questions put to them on ' The moneieur!J'en suis navrée; mais il nous est Case for a Stanley Commission" were un. de conduire les messieurs souls. Si satisfactory in the extreme, The matter la vous aviez amene votre femme, par example" one, as Mr. Gladstone said, which touches Dut the gentleman alone had fled. This stern-the general reputation of this country. It is ness it is which has killed the Lady Guides, the duty of the Government to defend the for we regret to say that the Association is
in its tenderest point than from it possibly can, not less defunct, "It was a pleasing idea, and we re-that it has not been found profitable. assaults elsewhere. This duty is not to be its members should have been able to shuffled off on such merely technical pretexts fiat should have failed. to guide their own ide the steps of others into pleasant, places, as Ministers alleged. Moreover, these pretexts had not even the merit of accuracy. destinies more successfully, is food for sorrow-"The Government," sai ful reflection. And to think that it is al! be-responsibility for the ex} cause they would have nothing to say to the and the leader of it, added Lord Salisbury, is gentleman unaccompanied by a lady not a British subject. But whether he is a In reviewing Lord Houghton's Life" by British subject or not, the British Govern: Wemyss Reid, the St. James's mentions that ings, It made itself the go-between for ment interested itself directly in his proceed it was remarked by some one that if tiations between the Emin Committee and Lord Beaconsfield was a good judge of men, the Egyptian Government. Not content with Mr. Gladstone was a still better judge of merely passing on the Committee's requests, mankind, Houghton was asked to tura express royal of the proposal," whicl mam wens el tke say the epigram into verse, and he did it as Spproval followed immediately on. the statefollowa
ment that "the Ex mn. will be under the We spoke of two high names of speech and direction of Mr. H. M. Stanley." All this pen, and much else, directly involving the Govern-How each was seeing and how each was ment in the Expedition, will be found in the blind Parliamentary Paper "Africa (No. 8) 1888.
Knew not mankind, but keenly knew all We note too that Punch is—not too early either—to take on a new artist The possible enrolment of a new recruit on the staff of Punch is an event as interesting to the art world generally as to that of journalism, and when the cadet is a man of keen humour and fine artistic sensibility the appointment becomes one of some public importance, Mr. Punch's new man" to whom we refer is, or probably will be, Mr. Barnard Partridge, who has of late years been making for himeelf a unique position. but who has hitherto found no worthy channel for his "comic work". Of the value of Mr. Par-bridge to the London Charirari there can be, Wwe Suppose, no two opinions; but, judging the Matter from the technical point of vow, w question whether the paper can do full credit tothe artist. Half the charm of Mr. Partridges method of pen-drawing is the refinement and delicacy of his lines; and, as Punch is still printed in a primitive fashion—from the original wood blocks and on s roughish paper—it vis doubtful whether they can be adequately treated. However, time will show. men 5
Knew naught of men, but knew and loved mankind.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.