Year: 1872

whom You met at the bah next door two mghS peore
There a certain class of men In London society who
are applied 10 by ballgiving ladies for danclng-
men, just as they would here send 20 a
fashionable caterers for waltora. There are two
or three OF these men who are supreme,
and get young fellow invitations TO almost any ball
he wished to TO- There an immense deal OF invita-
ton hunting The average expense Of ball in London
may be put at fifteen hundred dollars, but they ire
queny much MORE and by profusiOn of flowers
especially, be up TO almost any The supper Is
usually entirely done by confeCuoner. His superin-
tendent with regiment Of walters takes complete con-
troll Of everything for the night. The servants
of the house do nothing but stand In their
state lyorles in the hall and receive the guests.
II Is considered essential good ball that IL should for
hour be dreadully crowded IL begins az eleven and
about begins 10 clear little; by two it becomes
pleasant and half hour later charming. BY hafpast
three the guests have generally gone. Dinner parties
are one Of the most agreeable features Of the
"A London state dnner-party in the great world is
made up Of swells' and Of regular dnorsout who do
the talk. These latter seldom young The most
conspicuous Of them to-day is Mr. Hayward, Jewish
baTriser He literary man, and has been for yearsa
contributor to leading Reviews. He 1t was who cut up
Lodir in the QUARTERLY and referred 10 by author
when be said that crcs disappointed mer who had
failed TO achieve success themselves This hit Mr. Hay
ward very hard. Unless they at quite different ends
Of the table, it does not do TO have two proessed diners
out at once. They not love another, and apt
10 clash Generally speaking their tempers are rather
acrid-probably they get bilious by good hving-and
they don't bear contradiction. They seldom popular
but somehow TO be recognized as part OF the


machinery Of dinnerparty under some circumstances


When the dner-out reaches the tOpmost rung OF his
| ladder he really becomes quite parsonage. HIS
| table is covered with invitations, and he picks
| and chooses, and ruthlessly filings aside the


cards Of those with whom he would formerly have been
/ q for do


guest But dinners where he is supreme are not the


really charming reunions These little parties OF


eight or ten at round table where there is really con


versaOn interchange Of thought not the talk of one or


two persons only These little dinners exist IN pei


fectiOn in London but they are hard to ind In fact
| almost every must to enjoy London season


thoroughly, apprenticeship OF two OF three.


Then he will become admitted into the re nne Of those
| he likes and will fud the reward of his persiscncy"


Altogether the London Season is for family at least
| a very expensive affair. Given a family Including


lady and gentleman and two daughters aged eighteen


and twenty, aud the whole cost from April TO August


would if they handsomely, entertained frequently
and gave a couple OF bas-and this is now almost al


WAYS DONE for rooms are large enough TO hold all


your friends at Oncein splendid style, come to twenty


thousand dollars. Not unfrequently people economic


by going to London for year. hut such process Is


rather injurious fashionable asprants inasmuch as


out sight Of mind and the lost ground has TO be


made up next year The price Of houses for the Sea


son IN fashionable localities is high. Almost as much
| is asked for a furnished house for the parliamentary
| session, February to August, rs for the year the
| rent Of hrst-class house for that period being


from thirty.fve hundred TO four thousand dollars


The Egyptian plague Of servants exists in mtigated
| form in London, compared with Hew-fork In great


families they most conservative race There are


a few famous pairs OF Of horses, in London
| The Duchess of WelingOu-the great Dukes fayorte


daughterinaw-has two in her service each about SIX


feet two. Some time since, gentleman who thought


great deal importance but whose father had made


great fortune by briCB-makng was wear! ing rather


sarcastic acquaintance at club with his difficulty in
| getting a match for his wife's man OF figure The


other man. he said, too short TO stand beside John


Why do Mt you put brick under hint was the cruel


reoindcr. Il closed the lamentation. Men OF figure


get very high wages II is very difficult get them to


stay with you unless you regularly to town for the


season and indeed this applies TO other servants
| A gentleman was hiring man-seryant for n friend in


the country. All satisfactory far wages went;


presently when the negotiation nearly concluded
| John inquired Has Mrs. Ma house in town, sirf !


Yes hut shes not well enough TO 30 up 10 London tins


season. Then, very respectfully, I'm afraid, Sir the


place won't suit me-" "A Monody," by G. II. Boxer


offers an aeconate too elaborate, tribute to the


memory his late pOetbrother T. Buchanan Read The


following lines will be recognized a natural portrait


OF the gentle spirit that has passed away.
| Motnerland! oh say
|
| Where is our nightingale, that erewhe made
Thy brakes, thy copses and thy shady groves
II way Of welcome, than to dig grave,
For him, thy child, who sought thee from afar'
| Filled with the love he ever bore 10 thee
! Yea, the least thing Of thiue-a wayslde plot.
Held Of wheat, mossy wood vale
Humble and hidden, the great casping sky
That held the fair within Its pure embrace
lie loved them all, and gave them dignity,
Filled them with forms and living Legendary,
And made them travel on the wings of song
/ Into the homes OF strange ana foreign men,
Who neer with bodily eyes might look on thee.
All what boon, what soace TO ms heart
II might have been, If with his dying eyes
BE could have seen the sunset OF mis- life
Fade out behind the green long rolling slopes
And pneclad SUBMITS Of his native hills;
Have heard the robin whistng IN the bush
Beside some homestead Of his native State;
Have smelt the odors Of his native flowers
Come in like friends TO wait abont his bed:
Have drawn his last breath from his native air,
And felt, sense departed, all around
| HIS cbildhoOd's peace come back 10 him again -
Instead OF dying, as an alien might,
In that half-fOreign city where the howl
OF gold is spread before neglected Heaven
From weary morning until wearler eye
These were the words that, as yOtiye fame.
Lighted the crumbing altar Of his life
For fual sacrifice. Thrice sacred words
with them spirit Ned whose every act
Was vowed 70 love- 10 universal love
The law and issue Of his gentle life,
The last reward and comfort OF the hour
When his mortal vision less and less
Grew the receding pageant of the world,
And. half in heaven ms lingering soul reached back,
A guiding star before him.


The Monthly Gossip" IN this number, usual il the
most amusing part Of the Magazine, with its piquant
comments and humorous anecdotes.


Among the articles in the Catholic World
which likely o attract the attention Of secular read


ers is a paper on the "Use and Abuse OF the Novel"


u which the freely handles several brilliant
rifles without any painful dcferenGe TO the prevailing
opinion their merits He admits that OF all branches
OF literature the novel has the greatest influence
moding the character and mode OF life OF the great
mass of readers at the present day This highly
important function OF modern culture ls 100 much
neglected in the Catholic community The novel.