New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-02
JOURNALISM IN ENGLAND.
1.-THE LONDON WORLD"

| ,.pottar Pow, with purpose" all through the
London season is aware of tall powerful cavalier
| weighing at least sixteen stone, mounted OH d
! powerful black horse with hog-mane, apparently
| an ex-charger Of the Household Cavalry ana eas'iy
nm 70 any weight The rider sits his horse fairly
well for park practitioner, appears to enjoy MS eA
ercise very much. and to know nearly everyoody
worth knowing. The Prince of Wales mods pleas
antly TO him. Qold-stcks and siver-sticks chat Win
him. professional beauties speak prettily TO hiin'
members of Parliament and peers OF the REALM
cross-country Baronets like Sir George Womoweh'
ROYAL Academicians like Mr. FIRTH actors ana man
ayers like Mr. Bancroft, Mr.. Wyndham. ana MI
Hare. are on the best terms with him as he cahters
along totus eres atque rotuHdgs, for is he not inc
outward and visible sign of The World, otherwise
Mr.. Edmund Yatesi
The apoearance of Nr. Yates in the Row is gener-
ally looked for at about haf-past II O'CLOCK
! He now dwells close TO the Park, IN one
of a row of large houses called hyue
! Park Gate, close TO the Albert han. "uen
! he first launched The HOrld he lived IN pretty
! little house in Weymouth-st.; then he moved "
Cavendish souare on the principle that one cannot
be too near to Regent Circus which for practical
purposes is regarded by Londoners very much as
| their Court House Is by Bostouians. Then he TOOK
a fine house in Portland Place near to the Langham
Hotel had it clean swept and gorgeously garhiSheu
entered in and dwelt there for a couple oil years.
and then sold his lease and his admirably CHOSEN
furniture as it stood stock, lock and Garrel; niS
| black and orange drawing-room his " Dro"nery-
| greenery-yallery" dnng-room, his japanese oou-
! doir and comfortable ibrary-al that had cost 80
mncb time and trouble and taste to organize went
! r a prenlium of a couple of thousand pounds or
| tbereabouts on the cost. He only reserved lew
| silk-plush chairs very prettiy made and WIN tue
grain of the plush so disposed by humorous uphoi-
sterer that il would be difficult to slip of them on
| to rhe floor Besides these famous cfars MI
Yates reserved nothing but his library and pictures,
including portrait of his father, the famous lateS
of the Adelphi Theatre and small picture, almost
a miniature. by Stump, of his mother once the
heau+iful Miss Brunton who after the early death
| of her husband played the AdelphI heroines Tor
several years Not TO he forgotten between are the
| splendid Hogarhs which adorned the entrance
hall This fine collection Of choice impress
sions was once the property of Charles Dickens III
whose bllard-room at Gad's Hill they hung Tor
several years after his death, until MIR. Charles
Dickens the younger left Gad's Hill 10 reside III
Ton,on when at the sale of effects at the old house
| in Kent Mr.. Yates bought them. They are now In
the hail of his new house at Hyde Park Gate.
II must not be supposed that the breakup Of the
camp in Portland Place was occasOned Oy that I'M
pecunostv which, like dtra cura, sits behind nearly
all vbo,nount that skittIsh steed Pegasus Mr. Yates
has been for the last decade in the receipt oil
handsome income and for the last six years of
very large one But he has this much of the Bohe-
,nian instinct that he loves new houses and new
scenes. and he and Mrs. Yates are never happier
than when displaying their excellent aste IN fitting
! nm y new dwelling AS with town houses so are
| they with country houses by the BANKS of the
| Thames Wargrave-called in his novels LoddOn-
| ford-was long his favOrte summer dweillng-place
| and a pretty nook by the riverside 1t was. linen
| came The Temple. much larger house at Goring'
otose IN Cleeve Lock shut oil from the highway by
| a leafv bank forming perfect screen OF verdure.
| and including an island with boat house on II,
amid magnificent trees, closing in the view
on that side. IL Is large place,
so large that Its occupant averred that he and his
tavorte collie-dog Nelly could get all the walking
exercise they wanted without going beyond the
gardens and the fields attached. But Mr. Yates
soon got tired of his charming riverside dwelling.
| One wet summer succeeded another. and he reck-
oned that the rent of the place for the available
| period of residence was about fifty pounds per
| week While his house in Portland Place was be-
! ING decorated il rained so turIou5ly that he was
constrained TO come to London and take n suite Of
apartments in a hotel Then he threw the Thames
over for year or two went abroad to the fa'hona-
| bic Engadine found it colder and more wretched
| than the Thames Valley in wer weather, and came
| back 10 one of his old loves. Brighton. This year
he again took a villa the Thames at NARROW and
wa. no sooner established there than he went 10
Paris.
These details may appear at first unimportant,
| but they throw much light Oh the character OF
| a novelist and journalist more talked about than
any other member of the latter procession, even Mr..
| Labouchere hardly excepted. In his personality
.sEdmund is far better known than the so-called
| Arabian Mr.. Chenery. Mr. Mulford, or any Of
the editors of daily newspapers who, arue, affect
! somewhat of the character of velled propheis-the
! Mokaanas of journalism. Ces Messears are obliged
TO be lust little inaccessible, and by means al
| mit visitor; with the freedom customary III the
limited states In London it is not given every man
| IN see the glory of an editor The visitor may think
| he i somebody but his convictions apt 10 be
| shaken before he leaves an editorial Office. There
are Junior clerks who TILE" as Freemasons would
saw the editorial sanctum very closely. The man
who wants to see the editor must first send in his
name and unless that is well known will assuredly
he told by the clerk to write concerning his bust
| ness But the Editor and Proprietor of The y ord
IL perpetualy entertaining at home, or going out to
other entertainments, and consequently can be, and
j. interviewed il all sorts of places-theatres and
clubs included. II is this love of life and move
ment which has made Mr.. Yates great chief IN his
chosen. or, rather self-nvented, style of journal
ism His is the temperament of one desiring new
things. His love Of new houses is only one express
sion of his perpetual wish for change of scene and
company lie also loves new friends but, 1t must
be added without forgetting or ignoring old ones
He is in fact rather of the flexible and impression
| able than of the judicial and impassiye type, and
instead Of looking at mankind with calm gaze, IL
keenly alive to delicate shades of character
Indifference is quite alien to him lie either
| loves or hates, and, IN this particular, l.