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    • TUB BURLINGTON &OCTSE CATECHISM.
    • WORSE AND WORSE.
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      Mon Thos Tjoye E Who Played Love By Good...

      like No , the erratic English rockets people , are will led not up have to gradually their taste and corrupted artistically by M . Lafont . Look down the advertisement sheet of the Times a " nd That " ' the s all Girls I know of the about Period it , " " Breakdown Billy Taylor , " " I ' smart their young Ma , " fellow , " & cM vindicate the refinement of our national taste . There dramatic is no authors hope for capable the Eng of lish creating drama characters as long as with there any are force no and or depth no audience of feeling capable , nor of actors appreciating capable them of performing . them ,

      May 29,1869.] The Tomaha Wk. 235

      May 29 , 1869 . ] THE TOMAHA WK . 235

      Tub Burlington &Octse Catechism.

      TUB BURLINGTON & OCTSE CATECHISM .

      Tributed Q.—Last To The Week Exhibition ...

      tributed Q . —Last to the week Exhibition you told of me the that Royal the very Academy worst were pictures from con the - brush with other his prominent of merits the President ? artist , whose Sir Francis reputation Grant is . absurdl Can you y inconsistent name any A . —I can . Mr . John Prescott Knight , R . A ., almost rivals have Sir Francis made their in th own at peculiar . school of " daub" that they both vass Q . — ? Should , then , Mr . Knight distress you with his

      canno A less . —He than should eight terribly good places . He on has the walls shamelessl of the y Academy monopolised . plain Q . — what You are you ri mean ght . . Will when you you , however make , use be of so the good expression as to ex- , * ' shamelessly monopolised ? " road A . — in I art will along . Mr which . Knight the is hig a hest fashionable genius never portrait condescends painter , a which to travel is . dail M y oreover becoming , it is , from in these an days ait p of oint photo of gr view aph , y less , a road

      respectable Q . —You . are right . Can you , then , give me any account of it Mr is . likely Knight to ' s interest work , and or exp amus lain e the its nature public , — who I me pay an , show a shilling how for A witnessing . —The public it ? are amused by a reference to the catalogue . jects There . is It much is reall fun y an hidden amusing in a li collection st . of Mr . Knight ' s sub-A Q . . — — I Can can you . It , if is as ou follows please , : furnish — me with it .

      172 85 . . Joh H . B n . Gregory Bolckow , , Esq Esq . ., Painted M . P . by order of the Court of in Assis their tants Hall . of the Draper ' s Company , to be placed 323 258 . . James Miss Grace Eden . , Esq . 437 353 , . Mons Miss Clara . Edmund . Frere . 443 . Arthur Asiatic Grote Society , Esq . Painted for the Bengal

      738 . Mr . Alderman * fluff W « W \ r W •» W ¥ Agnew , . Will Q . —You tell correctl me wh y call ? this amusing ; but it is not interesting . you y public A . — does Because not , care estimable to see as them these daubed people may on canvass be , the general by Mr . Knight , R . A ., and forcing better work " out of the line . " ¦ Q ^ p ^ . —Without * * V **^^**^ wishing Ff'flWMAHK to * m ^ r be 9- ^^ 0 pers WV & WWMMA onal les , one ^^ advertisements «* W mi »**»^ ght » ** 1 » say WM * T that rJbAlrWV of W ** W

      ultra academy snobbish portraits character were more . How or s are there an of mean answering s ? the same ends of advertisement many ways , but by different A . —Two . A Q . . — — The Which construction are they % of a " mutual admiration gallery , " where vr itW 4 w w all »** peop j-r * column # w £# * le n » thirsting miia of hiiau advertisement ^ for a w-a vulgar v ua ^ bia disp \ 4 * in < 9 £# lay * the c « 'jr mi ut Times * gai ght . v find ** m »^ iv * « a * p £# lace * c the *^ wy ,

      names or a long , means , and pedigrees ( this last at the pleasure , ging of the advertised Academy portrait ) of those . who delight in the obtrusiveness of a Royal subject Q . —You of these answer advertising correctly canvasses . Tell me ? have you exhausted the A . —Not quite . I would say , in conclusion , that an exhibiis tion a , disgrace one third to fcV of the 14 which nation is and composed thisbecause of such through " works the of greed art "

      of 1 O C the * V **» painters JJ |* j »* WW and VV AAC the * l *& vr reckless . IAj , CVI 1 U bJ 4 snobbishness A £ 7 , } MWWC 114 OW WAU of I / UgU the sitters g & W to ^ U _ _ _ w ,. ^^ »^» i

      Tributed Q.—Last To The Week Exhibition ...

      be distances in time , draperies for a place , and . All other or accessories most of the , especially details , such the hands as the , which scientiousl in real finished works are of thrown art should in as if be some carefully fifth-rate and scenic conartist had y knocked , them off by the dozen . I know of many peop House le , who simp will ly because not wade they through will not the subject Exhibition themselves at Burlington to the without gap disgusting ing alderman horses ordeal hitherto , plain of facing children unknown hundreds , provincial noblemen of nobodies simpering grandmothers , with , misses and ,

      on and nine over - - tenths dressed , of women this . snob When -canvass the Academy it , shuts then its worthil doors , undertake the culture of British art . , At may present it only too y well fosters British flunkeyistn . think Q . — , if You you express had an yourself offer of vi being gorously painted . Would by the you President , do you to-morrow , yourself , accept it , and be sent into the Academy . A . —Yes , I would . ( To be Continued ?)

      Worse And Worse.

      WORSE AND WORSE .

      Unenviabl Of Alderman Dispensing Justice...

      unenviabl of Alderman dispensing justice Sir icu Robert ou at s the even Garden Mansion on the , a magistrate civic House bench , stands now . in alone the habit , and Having y made consp this statement , , let us proceed to disclose the Russell cause of , a our tripe irritability -dresser , . was One charged day last with week assaulting , then , a Samuel police the constable constable in the , it execution appeared of he his was duty on duty . From in Barbican the evidence , when of a some man came to by him a woman and comp The lained two that went he together had been in robbed search of of

      money . the standing thief , waiting when they for came her hu upon sband the at prisoner the corner ' s wife of , who a street was . been They robbed went up said to she her was and not seized the woman her , when who the had man robbed who him had , came although up , and " she having was dressed asked the like constable her . " , On who this was the , by th prisoner e way , about dressed , and in p having lain clothes received , what no he satisfactory meant by exp pulling lanation his , very wife properly He was gave consequentl the policeman taken in into plain custod clothes but a sound his wife thrashing being .

      y y , violent called as in a the witness extreme , stated and that that her the arm policeman . was black ' s conduct and blue was through The woman his was ill-usage proceeding . , But to here uncover comes her the arm point in of proof the of story her . to assertion the police when report Sir Robert , said " Carden he did stopped not believe her , and it ; , besides according , he could not tell whether her husband had caused the bruises . " In the end , the hard prisoner having and received sober an exc and ellent model character hus

      band as a stead was sentenced )' , -working to go to , prison for man a week , ; but a the disap " - - probation expressed , by of the their peop looks le in of the disgust Court that was the so Alderman unmistakeably was fairly cowed into mitigating the penalty into a twenty-shilling fine . Robert But putting Carden mean aside by the telling decision a witness altogether , without , what the least does pro Sir - vocation or reason , that she was swearing falsely , and that he

      likewise likewise believed believed that that her her husband husband beat beat her her . ? / Is is bir Sir Robert Robert ing Carden his wife himself , that in he the is habit so ready of committing to jump to perjury the conclusion and of beat that - every one else must be guilty of such crimes . There must have has ordinarily been something little enough of the of kind anything in the Alderman at all in it ' s , head or he , which would and not have cowardly gone surmise out of . his way to have hazarded such a brutal Time Really , we when are we losing could all laugh patience at him with j but Sir he Robert is now Carden etting .

      disposed beyond was a of joke the . M By ayor putting of Cork on . a little Will gentle not some pres public sure we -sp g irited have bench M . P . introduce of a functionary a bill to quite rid as the mischievou country , or s , , at and all even events more , the ridiculous , —Alderman Carden .

      Her Majesty's Customs.—To Spend As Littl...

      Her Majesty ' s Customs . —To spend as little time as possible in London .

  • Citation
    • Tomahawk (1867-1870), May 29, 1869, page 235, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/t/issues/ttw_29051869/page/5/