New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-13
THO STORIES ABOUT HENRY IRTNG.
From The Theatre.

From The ThsdTe.
Scena the first was enacted in fashionable Le1-
don dining -rOOm. The party gathered round the
artisticsly arranged table was not large one bst
very select the lion of the evening being the great
was overheard saying to the gentleman seated next
to her, VINO had taken her down to din
ner: You Eil excuse S my rI not M. Log L90S-
but really cannot take my eye; on az. TVlngs
face it u $3.50 exqulsitely intellectual IL need
hardly be said that Me-. Bndgs did not waste many
words on his fair partner during tho rest OF the din
ner When the ladies' retired the gentlemen ht their
cigars. Dir. Bulge was tho hrst TO leave tho ta9se
In order to Join the ladies IN the drawing ROOM he
had hardly assembled dozen steps when be encoun-
tered two ladies, nerVOusly, anxlously ehnRing 70
the banlsters One Of them was ,o 9a' b ,aSe
and, in An Imploring. voice, she thus adj
dressed him: " Can you. Mr. Budge-ean you tell mo
when Mr.. Irving is coming ups.arsP When ne
impatient reply. The two ladies had thrown them
selves into most picturesque attitudes. their hands
clasped their eyes 9pearnea, thsS seeed g 20
denly, the one who had already spoken
sTsmbled all over. her o bands O,,vS were
and she bleathed this loud whisper: can sGell
his ciQarD This was @ liCtle too much for Ar:
Bulge You must haze an I ss nSyns ESoe
ing that there are at least hail adozeD OF tAem sn0k-
ing tOaether y and he sped uD the staircase three
steps ut time, in search OF more cOngeni spI'tS;
ono Of the royal learned societies IN LOudon. Tho
walls are lined with books from floor to ceiling; the
time "a IN the evening. the curtains are dTawn too
GAS lit aud gOOdly company is assembled. inclnd-
ing a fair sprinkling of ladies. An odor OF WISDOM
peryades everything. Here sits man who haa set
right Dean Trench and LIndiey Murray; ia that
Garner IA An energetic advocate Of the Ureat Britain
az the East who manages somehow TO drag
.Japan into eyerythihg-par les cheyeux sometimes;
gnrthsr on Ia man who may be depended upon TO
sneak about every subject lndeT, above aun arOand
fRe sun-and inside it 100 If the topic were started
10 at least Que persons entire satisfaction; aud
there are many Others, learned pundits each IN hls
own line But if you take them all hound, there Is.
nerbaps no one subject OF winch there
sxista more eOnsumpate knowledge
amongst those present than Of Shakespeare
whose name, by-the-bye, Victor Hugo, Ia his
lane has rhyrned with soupr! There 10 not1lns
about tina great " Bard of Avon that u not known
here One gentleman is on his legs just now deplot-
inc the imperfections OF English spelling, Wmen
render il almost an impossIbLlly t0I poStitIp "
read the works of an author la snch wise thse Iue
writer if be were called to Life again. coulo unueI-
stand them. a.. .;so ,-o,, tbe deaa noyxD
ontn1ad Inc speaker make bold say he would
SorSIv comprehend his own words. as they issue
from The mouths of tho present eXponents OF them
he xSonld be shocked were no TO bear living
From a seat on the left hand OF the chairman
there arose slim form. pair Of gray eyes tWinkied
nnder a massive forehead, and from par OF tnln
ns whose corners rollieked In mirth there Issued.
In the clear tones Of bell, these three words; VI
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