New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-01-15

| William Harcourt who is most occupied IN the
| regulation of the Universe
| MIR Blaine is the next victim. Mr.. Blaine cannot
be surprised that he should unpopular at this
| moment in England Bnt whether Mr. Punch's
| verses on the Secretary of State keep within the
License allowed to public Jester, each reader of the
! following elegant etiusion may determine for hlm
| self
sCARY BLAINE.
AIR Hnry Bldine" (EiOnydLed G1stOn)
Twas in connection with Peru and Chilli
That met With Scary Blaine.
As the prOpounder OF pcn-and-lnk policy or exag
geraied spread-eagl esm AS hfaluun as II was
And aa Wanting IT vain.
II ANYBODY mot Yankee should take the most I'M
| warraniabie liberty % complaining " the vir
glnal purity of " Peruvian Questions" with those
sdulterate devilries known as European poll
wiz Creation would bust" said scary,
which plainly proves that the great Clock OF Time TO
| the tune Of the cap bells OF eapeffnS Columbian
Chanvinistic folly ticks
In the ears of the ex-secretuD
But fare thee well. Oh scary Blanel
sensible public bids you adeul
Fare thee we'll. Oh! scary BlaneI
We ne'er would meet again
Mr. w F.. Forster is the next victlm-ofiensive
personality being still the line taken. 1t would he
moro offensive if the shat had been aimed at
vulnerabe point: but it is ludicrous to depict
Mr.. Forster az imagining himself q great and in
fallible parsonage The mistakes he makes are due
rather to n want of idcnce than to an excess of
it, Then comes Mr. Irving. aud he too Is not put on
the rack for the first time Mr. Irving. like some
otl er successful managers, chooses to advertise
favorable criticisms Mr. Bnrnand is at the pains
to SIMPLY us with some which he thinks Mr. Irving
might have written. Thus Is one:
leading Belfast newspaper says; =" Mr. Iryings the
greatest that has rOd the boards Judged by
the standpoint o. his profits, 10y the side Of which the
most sublime efforts Of GaIrick, kean, Kemble and
Rachel sink into insgnihcance. The three kingdoms
i.ntta VII, Al tvifh
stantial homage Ia him who has undoubtedly placed
himself mead OF that trade which he Is never tired
Of UNFOLDING and whch Persevering IN the course Re
has recently taken-he will undoubtedly succeed In
placing level with that Of the enterprtsnG grocer
and advertising tea dealer'
Ana there are sundry others, of them show
inp good temper or a very high order Of wit. Mr..
Buruand likes Mile. Sarah Bernhardt no better than
Mr.. Irving He is impatient of other peoples sue
cesqes "Whcn" cries he will the Bernhardt bnb
BILE burst r. And on the strength of quotations in a
London paper from French hook in which Mile.
Sarah Bernhard is deprecated. Mr.. Burnand eX-
presses the opinion that she is guilty of ill-bred
impertinence and hkens her to an drentWicre Mar
enerte at Mabe; which indicates that Mr.. Bur-
nand'S ideas of things theatrical in France are little
mixed Suppose it were all true-what has it to do
with the proper subject Of public criticism or ridi-
Guile Mile Sarah BernhardS dramatic merits or de-
merits if Mr. Burnand thinks them demerits'
r..
ipa abuse not only on professional artists like Mr..
Irving and Mile Sarah Bernhardt, but on an ANA
teur. Mrs. .Lamgtry, who has the presumption to
wish to become a professional, and to earn her
livelihood on the stage "'Aly face is my fortune,
sir ahe said will not alone serve Mrs. Langtry as
a passport to public favor" Mr.. Burnands
comment last week and this week we have an
imaginary account of her appearance "a Lady
Macbeth. To say that it IA full of discourtesy to
lady i. to give a very mild account of it. The
Fioaro of Paris a paper which respects no virtue.
believes in none, and practices none, likened Mrs.
Langtry's debut ut the FIavmarket to that OF Cora
Pearl ut the Bou0eS PGrisiennes; entirely mlsled 1t
ia charitable 70 hope. by the cquivocal meaning OF
The tern professional beauty That term. how
ever. il applied here as everybody knows, to
number OF ladies of high social position. and i'm
niles no more than this: that they owe their ce-
lebrty to their beauty. Mr.. Burnand of course,
knows this but he is not ashamed to quote what
the Figaro saws and to add This is the truth and
nothing but the truth in n NUTSHELL 1t is GER
tainly not the truth; 1t is piece OF calumnlous
malice.
Again: Mr.. Burnand says: Z" Mrs. Langtry in
tends we suppose. by this performance to put her
self M for hire to the highest managerial bidder in
the theatrical market II Mr.. Burnand is going IN
for the gossip OF The COuseS be might at least take
the trouble to lslen 10 it and, where woman Is
concerned to make sure of bis factS. lie might
have found out first, that Mrs. Langtry was not II
bs coarse phrase is to be repeated for hire. Mr..
Rurnand ia not for hire suppose. He is already
hired" by Mes,rs. Bradbury Evans, the pro-
prietors of the paper which he is inJuring by this
brutality. Mrs Langtry said some time ago,
WAS engaged by Mr.. Bancroft after rehearsal and
before the performance when Mr.. Burnand supposes
she put herself up
MFR. Burnand might have known another thing,
which possibly would have seemed to him neon
sistent with his theory that Mrs Langtry is making
q market Of her beauty. Before her engagement