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    • CRITICS' CRITICISM.
    • WHEN THE BLOOM IS ON AWRY.
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      We Have Been Favoured, Through A Channel...

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      and " I I alway can assure s , hard heard you as the the it is , Eng common quite lish true were . Their le a and hard Pachas their -working amusements and peop nobles le , work are more just tiring as than any labour in peop our , country . I am quite putation The fagged sleep Prince in to . the death I of middle have Wales as got they of quite the the say day heir . confused , If to I am I the lie woke by Throne down all up I for seems to have a receive few had to minutes like to a see de it - . ' of but wine I notice to keep , poor up young his , strength man , he ; is I ' m obl sure iged I to don , take ? t wonder a good at deal it , , to bedand for ior he

      for far he he never never seems seems to to me me to to go sro to Dea , , ana as as travelling travelling , , ne is never out of his coach or the railway train , unless he is at There a some large banquet was place a all dreadful or built ball . of crowd I went glass as to , where a there splendid the always ' ball Lord at is Mayor the everywhere Guildhall ' lives . ; , the and fireworks they crushed came me ; th nearl en there y to death was . a concert I was very and a glad banquet when . drinking They never , but do I have anything really in quite this forgotten country without where the eating concert and was ; I think with beautiful there must have been and two fountains . One was where at Woolwich make

      Arsenal all the , . This is gardens a wonderful sihtbut , I am too they tired to describe guns it to you . g , think covered " I went they in are to this the as country pretty Opera as , , and even ours saw , to and their the as dancing all bosoms women slaves ( which go about ; I would don un 't - have Paris ) shocked , the attraction me a good of dancing deal , if women I had not is not got the used same to as it at it is with us . They wanted me to go to a ball after the Opera , way but , I they could make not stand a great that deal , especiall too much y as of Ismail here ) ( whom had been , by the to

      dinner dinner , , and and I I could could only only have have come come in in afterwards afterwards , , which which would would have been undignified . " Fuad has been immensely useful tome ; none of the lords appointed by the Queen to form my suite here , can speak sation French difficult , and as . I Marc can ' t o speak is rather a word disagreeable of English we and find seems conver to - think that this European living will disagree with , me . He is not far from wrong ; for one must have the stomach of an ostrich and the head of an elephant to be able to bear the rich meatsand the drinks of these islanders

      " I don , ' t think strong there is much more to tell you . . I shall be glad to get home and go to sleep for a week or so . Izzendi keeps " I hear well , the and peop stands le comp the fati lain gue that wonderfull my manner y . is cold ; but the fact ear to is , ear they all would day , and never nod be my satisfied head unless off my I shoulders was to grin , besides from allowing my hand to be squeezed into a jelly . They are a very good sort of people , these English , but they are far too restless

      and J » nrl noisy maicv , and onri t oo \ r \ b KnictorAiicl oisterously ene *» n « avcr rgetic *» f-J o to tr % be "he * a comfortable f * nmfnrtaY % \ t * nation to live amongst . and " The with clima all that te is the execrable dust is , it dreadful does nothing . The but wind rain is all always day , blowing , hard and so dries up the ground as fast as the rain wets it . *• T T \ o « pa e ?* " » 5 # 1 * w \ £± *¦*•*• 4 >* irs ^ troi ^ ir tiinmr f niri fve empa T liU rinirA r ^ AJS ^ r *

      * AACl V I * OC 11 U & . WAJLW \ JX kWV V Wi J A U 11 J 1 J MAAilg ^ OlliU ^ * V V- WVli h said ere . I . The Eng oth land er day all over , I saw ! al wa boy ys raining in the s ! " reet I cry sha ing ll m ake " Ah you die of laughing when I come home . phrases " Allah and pro learnt tect you to speak I have like quit an Infidel e forgotten , as you all see my . " Oriental

      ~~~^G Ust 3, 1867.3 The Tomahawk. 143

      ~~~^ g ust 3 , 1867 . 3 THE TOMAHAWK . 143

      " What We Are Coming To ! *—We Have The ...

      " What we are coming to ! *—We have the very best reasons for believing that advertisements resembling the following assuming will be that immensel the wine y numerous merchant in s the look course to their of own a few interests months ; , Suitable Birthday Present for a Young Lady : —An elegant hamper containing 6 dozen best Sherry , 6 dozen old and Port a , 12 two dozen -hogshead Cliquot cask Champagne of Gin . Price , 24 bottles & c . of old Brandy ,

      Good Thing To Be Said By Those It May Co...

      Good Thing to be said by Those it may concern . — Why don't I go to the Exposition Universelle ? Because I was for one me of the " the firs Great t to expose Parish the Exhibition St . Pancras !" Guardians . That was

      Critics' Criticism.

      CRITICS' CRITICISM .

      Ings We Of Are The Surprised Townshend A...

      ings We are the surprised Townshend and deli troupe ghted at to the observe Holborn that Theatre the flounder have - galvanized thing wing nice like the a a . sh sno dead ow w oi of corpse life meand ana of n that mat ewspaper the tne th theatrical criticism eatrical luminaries luminaries into some-, ,

      borrowed who pretend a jud to gment tell the with public which what Nature they has should not endowed believe , them have in and order a truth to chronicle with which the even ever accident -memorable has disp never lay yet of gifte the d distin them - , , guished nouie amateurs . nis We irienas too have inflicted upon ourselves the

      marquis ana , ana certainly worse plays worse of acted drunken we never rubbish before held beheld together . " King by nothing O'Niel" and is a is mere so farago feebly actor conceived s who and ever written tro . d the that board it would s to make not be anything possible out for of the it . best But J | villainousl we should y not presented have thought as it th is at at even the ' Holborn King O'Neil Theatre ' could . be Lord so i Townshend might address some of his conversation to those who the stage with himhe miht too study his part

      more are and on the footlights less . He , might g even pronounce his words pair ; but as if he he never were will not , and an so Indian we leave praying him - . machine Sir John out Sebri of g re h - | then should perhaps take lessons the next in time deportm he fills en such t from a part his himself own valet he , and will I not or shout wear as hot if potatoes he was hailing in his shoes a smack , punch in the his North master sea in . the Sir ribs R . , I tain Roberts tnat is no better , and whatever he may think , we feel

      cerne ougnt not to say comic speeches to his daughter j when and conjunctions he casts her to off the for exclusion ever , or emp of all hasize his all other his words prepositions . Mr . which W . Maitland he can't again help , and is endurabl his imitations e in nothing of a drunken but his Fenian brogue , turn altho to ' well the -intentioned land where , make Habeas us wish Corpus that is he not would in force again , to re be - \ locked owes Owes it it up to to the th by & fact fa summary r ± that that he ht process * wears wf * ara . the the Mr . legs lf T * crc . G which -whinh . Bowles nature natnrp probabl eravf y j

      him ( si sic omnes /) that he has been excepted by the critics gave , but unless he thinks Richelieu was a conceited jackanapes he his stalls should one when method not curl he oug of his ht shruggi li to ps be onl ng y expressing his to shew shoulders his love teeth and , rage or wagg languish or ing despair his at head the by { like a piping bullfinch . Seriously , the acting is altogether exehow crable is , it and that the they critics never are abuse this time all the quite other right execrable to abuse it acting . But which is inflicted on us in such quantities ? In the very same and papers brutalize which Sir grill Randall Lord Townshend Roberts , there , scarif are y the Sir usual J ohn disgusting Sebright ,

      tissues quite as of bad praise . It of is p not ieces enough and actors to tell , the within truth an about ace amateu of being rs who have no tangible bribes to offer in reward for praise . We truth look for about critics pieces to perform which they their themselves office faithfull or their y , by friend telling s hav the e written . Yes , even when they have to attend theatres where the manager is able to accept or reject their own productions , and to give or withhold the welcome private box . Till this happy time arrives we shall not believe a word they say , any more than the intelligent public does at the present moment .

      When The Bloom Is On Awry.

      WHEN THE BLOOM IS ON AWRY .

      (From Our Special Grumbler.) One Moment ...

      ( from our special grumbler . ) One moment please , —I came up from the country the other day to see my two nieces , who used to be two as nice fresh-looking g has irls chan as you ged eve them r — might into— wish well to I meet won ' . t say But what one I London think of season them ; besides , it would take up too much of your space . My especial

      g her rievance rosy comp is this lexion . I , was and complimenting as is natural in the an affectionate eldest , Matilda uncle , on , I gaveherakiss . What was my astonishment *> find that the colour came off ! She had just come down from making her toilet , and the eccentricities bloom was or vices fresh of . Now relatives I have no and delight I venture in exposing to the st that girls in such a case , my should hang , a notice on to their sugge earrings of " Wet Paint , " in order to avoid such an exposS as that of which I was the innocent and unwilling author .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), Aug. 3, 1867, page 143, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_03081867/page/3/