Review.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 45, 4 November 1867, Page 271

Review.

THE’ AVTE —A Saturday Journal of Satire. —.T. London. WE at length, by. the courtesy of the r sMited publisher of this extraiijeriodieaJ, been favored with a copy of { the number for Saturday, August I?tb'-aud are now able to form some oiiiniou of a work which has iu causing a sensation throughout .the whole world. From time tqfstime >we have met with ex tracts fto'm its columns calculated to give of its. fearless and outspoken manner of exposing “things' -is thoy kre,’’ which we have given, to our readers; and we, have also seen various notices of its contents more or lessi; faydraible, to. it.. Ojf ; late we find that its r|mai:ks have’ given offence ;;o some; in.awarding its-eariier; their praise; and.dtb^r|o|ife;^ : criticism in, to' say, a few We have nothing 4 to complain of against our brothers of the Press, if they choose to abuse us. A paper like ours, which openly avows its determination to speak the truth, however unpleasant, and to spare no offender, high or low, is not likely to receive anymore than to, ask for gentle treatment at the hands of contemporaries. For the most part, indeed, we have received far more friendly, recognition at their hands than we might have looked for ; but they seem determined how to make up for any lapse in the way of good-nature which they may have committed. - Misrepresentation has always been the favorite weapon of those who are confronted by an obnoxious truth outspoken, or whose prejudices suddenly receive a.rudeshock- It is the fashion, so-.much now-a-days to disguise one’s real feeliugs in public, and any attempt to' write or even to think the truth, is so very rare; that common-place people stigmatise fearlessness as insolence, apd revile sincerity as scurrility. And tliis public'dishonesty in writers, which steeps their pens in - flattery aud degrades their criticism to senseless adulation, which makes them accept shams as realities and how down before the stuffed image if , its outside be only gilded, co-exists, strange to say, with.a greedy love for the filthiest scandal in private, and and a mean habit of insinuation which bespatters its victim with dirt from behind the 1 cowardly shelter of anonymous hearsay. The man who will whisper the vilestcalumny against a public character at the dinner-table, goes home to. his study, and sits down to write columns of adulation of the same persou. This may be very refined, couduct, but to us it appears.ignoble and treacherous,, and untruthful in the, highest degree. . We prefer to strike boldly and to strike openly; we prefer to say privately nothing more than we dare say in public, and to say in public nothing less than we dare say in private ; and be the l -consequeuees what they we are resolved to adhere to this principle ; and.we warn all our readers that in the pages. of the,,Tomahawk all censure, all reproach, all hatred, is openly expressed, aud not insinuated.. We satirize, but.w6. do not sneer. Nor will we be . responsible for'the meanings which those who dally, with scandal and play, the coy prude with Cfiliimny may seek to'fix on-our words or actions: • Our weapon shall always be employed- on the- side' of what is good and true,-, in the defence of the weak and the.houest, -in defiance of the strong; and .the dishonest... .But we recognize no law which calls on us to spare evil and folly, ‘because .they foay. be allied to weakness.:/‘Finally, »*of this lef all our critics, public or private,'assure themselves; .'that' callingfos all the name's which thevocabulary-of abuse contains will not deter iis from our purpose as long as ll umbug tind' Hypocrisy'.liold the high place in the world which, they, do :in. the ; present age. . ■ A.bui. -

- The Tomahawk is printed oh'toned paper, and.for sume reasdii the abominably ugly old-faced -type' - is- used-r-—a type,; by the way,'; are sorry to see coming more; arid more into kiße. It has a full-paged’ 'cartoon, oh a tinted ground, entitled Fishing -for Cor6§ nets,” which is.. exceedingly well ;exei tiuted, and well -Ulustrates- -the- allegorical sketch of modern society by yhich it : . is sevefal capityl in this : tnumbei; cofuthnA^ i /tha^wMchf/wh^hM^ Best: is -entitled,; •*^yNhw r iifeuiSiiiii

A NEW GALLERY. We itfis : the intention to decorate ’the corridor oftiie Albert Hall of Arts, and Sciences/when'ft is.’ctinipieted; with paintingsrepresifofmg fhe’ ''-'priheipd events'connected, with Ehglikhiiisto'ry-thatfhaVe occurred since the comme'ncenietltiof vtheiv.presfeat: centdry . ,- jWe need scarcely say.’that the'subjects will be. selected exclhsively. frorni.therj'celebrqted work The Early years of ,H.liH<itbe; f Lmce Consort,” and each picture will bo in ilinstration of some distinctive virtue, by v the-/Prince. The following are a few.' of : thesubjects already determined upon : ' ’ K ■ L Br.avery in the Field. —Albert the Good giving the : young Count Mensdorff a black eye—unintentionally. ' : , 2. Chivalry. —Albert the Good reproving his companions in a game of “ King of the Castle,” when they suggested-going into the castle up the backstairs. ' 3 .. Disinterested, Sacrifice. —Albert the Good in the act of sacrificing .hi? future prospects in life by accepting £30,000 a year and the hand' of the Sovereign-in marriage; ' _ - 4. Humility. —Albert the Good abandoning,the splendors and ceremonies of the Court, and. being discovered in Osborne Woods having a piper—will! the nightingales. . . 5. Moral Fortitude < —Albert the Good heroically receiving the distressing intelligence that it wasn’t a boy. . 6. Purity of Life. —Albert the Good going- to bed at nine o’clock, after having refused to go:to the races, and having declined to “ imitate the vices of former generations of the Royal Family.’! We believe that M. Desanges, the artist who so ably depictcd on.canvass the incidents for which the Victoria Cross, was conferred,, has received a commission to exeoute this most interesting gallery of paintings..., . ; J