LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3019, 28 February 1881, Page 4

LOOK ON THIS PICTURE AND ON THAT.

Her Bandmann's raptures on the occasion of his benefit were natural in the circumstances, bub decidedly amusing. We have given Bandmann good houses, have enjoyed hie acting, filled his purse. He departs from us as he said, 'with honor and money.' Naturally Herr Bandmann is delighted with us, and thinks us to be reckoned amongst the finest people in the world. We are generous, hearty, full-souled. We have amongst us "gentlemen of education, ~Hra, Shakespearian men," who have Kjjji, admirable criticism —" not only written sue*, - '"— ou Hen " Bandmann's criticism, but essays '-en "proud to performances that he has v*. " ,n g ™ c ™ send hundreds of the papers contau.- _ " to scholars and friends all over the woriu. Nob only are we a wonderful people, but we live in a wonderful place : — You know very well (this is no flattery) that your town is one of the'most beautiful in the world. In.fact, I..prophesy that the time is not far distant when this will be the resort of tourists from Australia and Europe who will travel to see the grandeur of the place. 1 have travelled in Italy, Switzerland, and other countries, but I have seen nowhere grandeur so beautiful as I have seen around your enlightened, hearty, and full-souled town. " I have to repeat," continued the grateful aotor, " that this is not blarney. Certainly, not. It was not blarney, but simply great ingenuousness, and a striking illustration of the fact that a man may be a great actor and remain as eimple-hearted as a child. Bandmann spoke as he felt, but, unfortunately for our self-conceit, the copy of the ! Duily Times which reports his speech gives also the impressions of another visitor who spoke as he felt. This is Mr " Arthur Sketchley," a renegade clergyman named Eose, who some time ago peregrinated New Zealand in the vain endeavor to attract its public to an original entertainment entitled " Mrs Brown at the Play." Not succeeding "with his entertainment, Mr Eose naturally found our towns (Dvinedin included) " little better than brick-fields," and our hotels dens of infamy with "drunken wretches lying in and about the doors like swine." Our merchants he discovered to be for the most part fradulent bankrupts, and observed that the people went about with a depressed air which mystified him until it was explained by the fact that " the inhabitants of New Zealand in general were in a state of chronic insolvency." Look on this picture and on that! There is a great deal of human nature in both of them—that is, I mean, in the artists who drew them. Each of them has ingenuously reported what he saw, or thought he saw. The difference in the result is due to the circumstance that Eerr Bandmann has been propitiated by kindness, the other man jaundiced by neglect.—Dunedin Paper.