EVERY MAN HIS OWN NOVELIST.

Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1041, 30 May 1883, Page 3

EVERY MAN HIS OWN NOVELIST.

*> Suggested by “ Every Man His , Own Poet.” '■ Specimen Recipes. ■ A NOVEL IN THE STYLE OF MU WILLIAM ' BLACK. Take one yacht, the Hebrides, an obstinate younglady, and one piper.: Add to these.a: Highland laird and Colbnsay ; now, introduce a young man in a: kilt and Oronsay, with a pinch of the Kyles of Bute: and Ben Muich Dhal. Flavour to suit taste- with, Gaelic,’ border ballads, and;StyprnaWay ; coyer with pathos and serve." v " -IN THE'STYLE OF Mil ANTHONY TROLLOPE. This is a dish alwaj’s in season, but depending, like the omelette, on a certain amount of mechanical skiff. The ingredients are simple ; three English clergymen of slightly doubtful reputation, a county family, one duchess, and pair of purely conventional lovers. It is indispensable that the latter should at once quarrel gently, but, unless they positively curdle and refuse to mix, they .should C nc>tj betray any marked emotion." Stir in' several Gabinot * ministers'-f'an'd'-one impossible American ; dilute to taste ; garniste wii tlFone cKQpped; ift uej i And' sauce mariar/e a la mode.--/MISS BROT/iMTON. ... This- simple aha‘innocent entrfe is pj e : ferued ‘jjy Trih'ny'toTlie ctiinbrous,and heavy joiqts so popular with The, last generation,. It /rneiely' 'requires a willowy and somewhat .vicious young woman, and an ugly an j. sbmewhat "mpre vicious young man (guardsman preferred) of middle age with two udve's living./ .Bkower and roast them together over a quick, passionate fire, and aerve either hot or cold, as the heroine survives it -or not. ’* Vegetables in the shape of -relations are--sometimes added, but tlVey*are- quite immaterial, and are generally skipped. Serve with an histori-cal-present platter,- and molten lava kisses to give a finish.' • * -. .. “ btriDA.” ... v* /, ,/// Take one languid Greek god, with fair hair and thershadow of a crime. Flavour him' with a ruined abbey, nothing a year, ajiffaco' on the Bosphorus, .turquoise hair- ‘.. 'Take also-seyoral .duchesses, tp. whom he make^,love,— yery languidly, °r. ho will, ndt' do,—a Dalmatian. gitana.with a thirst for revenge, . and .on* - yiyahdiere. - After these become; thoroughly mixed, introduce,.carefully,a chapter .on Ariadne, at* Naxos, phe/’liltle.' wooden "shoe , a gifted d og, and hj plain * m iste r to- g-i ve apiqu aht flavour. ’Season with a bouquet of choice misquotations, and serve with a supreme expiation. / LORD BEACONSFIELD. , - = . A Piece Moniee. Procure, ready-made from the pastryco6k’s, one Palladian palace which may be filled at pleasure with allegorical figures representing, the British aristocracy, the Rothschild 'family, ' the great Asiatic mystery fc ap(U^r^Bek^hßfie]d. r Ppwdered footmen '^be 1 spfiiikled - over - th e whole. • ;n i 5 ; —‘Augudtujs M. Sioift' in the Century “ 4 Mdgdzine. ~ •/ .