New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-29
JOURNALISM IN ENGLAND.
PUNCH

Paris and Ii is quite easy make out list OF the
people likely to be present, In the boxes are almost
certain to be Lord and Lady Londesborough, Mrs
Maxwell Miss Braddon). Lord and Lady Dudley,
and the members of the Terry family who do not
happen to be acting including, of course, Mrs. ar
thur Lewis, who acts more since she mas Harrieu
awealthv dry-goods merchant who is also an ex-
ccllent painter Certain to be there is the man IN
known for years with his enormous shrt-iroht ana
black gloves He was long called the mysterious
Jey and Is now known as the bnc-a-brac dealer
Durlacher. Other regular attendants are Lord Dom
oughmore, Lord Dunraven, Lord Desart the broth
ers Wilde, Mr.. Montaeu Williams, and Mr. George
Lewis the celebrated lawyer. who knows enough
abOut half the people present TO hang them. Inc
great seed-fa1mer and seed-merchant, Mr. Beale, Is
also a steady "frst-nighter.' as are Mr.. SERGEANT
Ballantine Mr. Labouchere Mr. Frank HILL 'he
Editor of The Daily N0cs; Mr.. Edmund Yates LOT"
Alfred Paget. Mrs. Kelley, Mr.. Morei MacAen%i0
and Mr. Iepox Browne the great rival laryngoscoplc
throat doctors DR.. W-arton Hood Lord hougA-
tom Miss LEIGHTON and the noble army of critics.
Fortunately these Judges are not allowed TO make
terrible show by occupying one particular box OF
row Of stalls Their venom Is diluted by their
being distributed at wide intervals In the stalls
and there is little danger of their communicating
Views 10 one another in the interval between the
acts In this respect they are as reticent as speclM
Wa~-corres pOndents who, before they were drilled
into dulness by SIR Garnet VOL elcy. showed ex-
rellent sport in the tricks and ways they devised
fordeluding each other All journalistic folk know
the capital story of Archie" Forbes a. Berlin
when the German Emperor made his grand entry
into that CITY, and relate with glee how Forbes,
knowing the post 10 be just slow enough 10 miss
one impression of a daily paper, kent on excellent
terms with his compeers and walked down with
them 10 the post-oiiice, packet Il hand. and dis
patched IT, Yet The Daily NdCs had full account
published just a day before the other papers, tr-
umph explained by the ostensible packet being a
dummy, the real one having been sent Oft by
special mes enger many hours before. Everybody
knows too the capital story of Forbes and Nh
Beatty Kingston at Paris II was SAID ar one time
that Forbes not only caused the arrest of Kingston
and thus prevented has message from beng sent on
from the besisged city, but tried 10 have him shot
alegend which very nearly brought about duel
between the rival correspondents, but ended in
dinner given by Mr. LabOUchere at the Reform
Club.
Dramatic critics are not in this country, as q rule,
ofthc fighting cabre OF the genuine stormy petrels
oijournalism They are men wellknown to other
"frs.-nighters,' and are, many of them, gray
haired or vcrging on the neutral tint. The Joyian
head of Mr.. Joseph Knight and his ambroslal beard
are showing the human autumn tint and Tie close
cropped skulls of Mr.. Du;ton Cook and NJ. Bernard
Becker are beginning to look very white indeed.
Mr. Clement Scott again looks youthful DOW that
he has beaten The Refcrcs. been down the Danube
10 Coustantinople and grown fresh moustache
after mady shaving off the original in tine aesthetic
hcnzv Mr. Watson's dark hair, like MT. Sala's
hes not vet shown signs of the Turn of the tide and
Nr. Reginald Brooks and Mr.. Pottiueer Stephens
are sill young if not as curly as Alr W. NJ. Morris.
who affects an antique D'Orsay sty l. of ram"nt but
is far from being a graybeard Alr Savile Clarke,
Iougthe best-oOking of the dramatic critics. IS
growing very gray, and the long moustache he Is so
fond of twisting a point longer ofjetty hue
Even Mr Percy Fitzgerald has hardly his former
annty air.
Presently enters one with grayish hair and beard
adecidedly go0d-looking man, with pair OF fine
dark eyes pointed beard, shirt-collar turned
down very low from the neck over black satin
cravat very loosely tied, and ample display Of
shrt-lrout In the matter of "gills' Mr.. Burnaud
is not IL the fashion for he dandies, young and
DID, wear high aud stiff "dOgcOllars" of terrific
ngdity. But Mr.. Burnand having found out the
style of costume which suits him, sticks o it Like
w;seman who knows his own mind. The Editor Of
Punch ha, exercised this mind vigorously
enough Tor the last fye-and-twenty years and is
Ole Of the few genuine humorlsts at this moment
extan, on the earths crust. As joker he l. not
only genuine bnt GENIAL his fun being Of that pleas
ant kind which hurts nobody. Unlike Jerrold and
The imitlors of bis manner, he does not lie in wait
like a wolverine to pounce upon his prey intent
only on scoring" and contributing nothing 10 the
njosnsnt Of o,hsrs until he has selected a vic
TIM MI Burnand hunOT Is far different. With
genius for twisting words and ideas, he perverts
all that Is said done into irresistible drolery.
AL play goeIs are familiar with "IMon' as every
reader Is with Happy thoughts" and the mimi
table limitations of popular nOveli,ts. 1t is said
here that Strapmore' was the only shaft which
ever rated the thick armor of "Ouida's" self
sOnceit: but il was excellent advertisement for
itsnearly forgotten original. Mr. BuInand does
the greater part Of his work at night. 1t IS after
heOpera is over" that he retres 10 his sanctum at
BE top Of his house in Russell Square and works
through many hours of the early morning. A MEM
bero the Beefstoak and every other club he cares
10 belong to, he is u strictly domesticated man.
lie has n fully grown son. a handsome youth the
mage OF his father" and twelve daughters, all of
whom are good king and several handsome Ii
IA grand s.glt 10 see him taking walk with his
children near Ramsgate, when he prcsldes at the
family dinner table in Russell Square.
A. Editor of Punch to which ne was the most i'm
portant contributor for many years, Nj. Burnand
has taken up a much stronger position than that
chosen by the late Mr. Tom Taylor, Who knowing
hs own defect of not being funny man. let every
artist do as he liked. TO me Nix Tom TAYLOR ap-
peared remarkable rather for the extent and vare-
vOf his in or,uation than for epigrammatic brill
fancy IN his method of imparsing it. II seemed
difficult 10 put ap 8 biect on which he could not
speak as one having knowledge. As art critic lac
had the good get artist two TO 20 over
Che great exhibitions with him and give him some
/ Points; and IN this showed marked superiority
iohOse hgh-sOlled and in dependent critics wh" III
stead Of consulting experts. write columns of orgl-
na, genuine, and perfectly honest oiotcy-the out
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