Mr. Mallock's Recollections Mr. W. H. Mallock, who made his name famous with' his book, "The New Republic," and has since written widely on a variety of topics, gives in his niemoirs (Chap. man and Hall) many good stories of the old days, His picture of London society 30 years ago will surprise those who do not recollect it, and be souvenir to those whose memories take them so far back, "Thirty years ago Piccadilly in June was 2 vision of open carrie ages, brilliant with flowerlike parasols, high-stepping horses, and jcoachmen, many of whom still wore wigs. To-day, these features have been submerged by a flow of unending omnibuses, which crowds treasure—its troubles. In the words! fight to enter, or from which they, struggle to eject themselves, "At fashionable hotels an unknown and unaccredited stranger could, by the mere chance latchkey of wealth, no more obtain access than he could to-day make himself a member of some exclusive club by placing the amount of the entrance fee in the hands_- of the hall porter."
Beuwer Lytroy 4Np wis Wire.
In these days, when a Parliamentary candidate usually has his vite to help him in his electioneer-ling (if she is not the candidate herself), the story of a wife who didn't want her husband to go to St. Stephen's is refreshing. The wife of the first Lord Lytton, when, while still Bulwer Lytton, he was standing for a Hertfordshire constituency, came on the scene.
To Lord Cowper, who was helping him, she said: "Now, Billy Cowper, we've listened to you long enough. Sit down and let me speak. You propose, gentlemen, to send my husband to Parliament, I am here to tell you that Parliament is not the proper place for. him. His Proper place is below, and when you have sent him there he will learn something of what he at present knows nothing. That something is justice."
Mr. Mallock explains that the lady was living separated from her husband, which accounts for the virulence of the various tirades he gives, including this: "My husband is a man who has been born out of his due time. He ought to have been born 1900 years ago. Had he been born then he would have been Judas Iscariot. He would have betrayed his Master; ho would have taken the thirty pieces of silver; but then he would not have banged himself—far from it, He would have sat down and written the Epistle to the Ephesians."
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