TABLE TALK. (BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) London, January 27.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

TABLE TALK. (BY OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.) London, January 27.

Lord Lonsdale has phut himself up at Lowther Castle aince his return from the United States, and won't see or talk to anyone. Violet Cameron, too, is living in strict retirement. Her business connection with His Lordship proved disastrous in more ways than one, and eho has no notion of renewing it. The " Mikado " was played at the Savoy for the laßt time on Wednesday week. It was produced on the 14th of March, 1885, and, with matin dos, has been performed 680 times. The entries for the Spring Handicaps aro larger than has been the case for some yeare. It is, however, foared that both the City and Suburban and Leicester Handicap will suffer from competition with the 3,000 guineas Jubilee Handicap, to be run at Kempton m the first week in May. The Kempton affair will be the largest of all the Spring Handicaps, and has obtained the biggest entry. Mr Glad&tone received £200, not £250, for his articleon fche now" Lockaley Hall " in the " Nineteenth Century " The celt b ration of the Queen's Jubilee at Westminster Abbey next June will, according to some authorities, cost £15,000, or more than tho thanksgiving service at St. Paul's aftei the Prince of Walea's illness. Curious people want -to know how the money goes. A snobbish Australian who came over last summer, and of whom many amusing stories are now told, was very anxious to make the acquaintance of a certain noble Duke. He consulted a friend as to the best way to bring a meeting about. "Oh !'* said the friend , ' ' wait till the next time you come across Hia Grace at the Exhibition ; (N.B. The Duke was a Royal Comissioner} then stop suddenly with a look of recognition, and pay, *My old friend, Mr Wilkinson, I believe?' putting out your hand. The Duko will then explain who he is. You of cou se apologise effusively, and co fall easily into conversation. It's a capital plan ; alway& succeeds," The colonial was delighted, and accepted tha suggestion con amore. At the Guildbali Ball he in due course came across the Duko, who was wearing the ribbon find star of the Garter, and looking extreme]'/ dignified. In a moment the little Australian had ambled across the room, and with what he meant to be a winning BmilB and hand outstretched, remarked suavely, " My hold ftiend, Mr Wilkinson, I believe?" But alaa ' Bis Grace was equal to the situation. Instead of following out the programme .\iitiei Dated, he pimply gazed at the unhappy man with a cold smile, and replied, "lodefd < if you believe that you'll believe anything, ' and promptly turned Me back. Despite itaab-«id title ("Hard Hit"), M* H. A Jones's new comedy-drama at the Haymarket seem* to have— in theatrical parlance — "Ctniglit on." Mi^s Marion Terry, who ha« vt turned to the stage after a prolonged absence, in better health than she has been ft>r yours, plays the persecuted heroine ; Mr Arthur Dacre, her weak, irresolute hu3bai'd ; Mr Beerbohm Tree, the plotting villain ; and Mr Willard. a sporting country gent'onian, quite a new role for him. At the conclusion of the run of "David Garrick," now drawing crowded houees to the Criterion Theatre, " Still Waters Run Deep," with Lidy Monckton as Mrs Sternhold, and Wyndham as Mildmay, will be revived. The third portion of the "Greville Memoirs " were publiehed, like the first and second portion?, without preliminary notice or advert i'tetnent. Mr Mudie and a few notable peop'e in the trade alone knew of the book's advene, before Tuesday morning, when copies wei*a sent round to the newspapers. 11 The Lodgers." the new farcical play by Brandon Thomas, which replaces " The Pick Pocket " i-fc tho Globe Thentre, wan produced with moderate success on Tuesday evening. It is a f*re and easy version of the well-known French vaudeville "Ma Niece et Mon Oura " Mr Douglas Baird'<- Enterpripe is wintering well, and hrtf gone up several points in the Derby betmn<> in con B eqnence Poor Archer though* very highly of this colt. " If he hadn't a touch of the white feather Enterprise would bb a second Ormonde." On the other hand, Archer ciid not think much of The Baron, and when John Porter thought of buying him at £10.000 fora patton, advised against the purchase. " He's not worth £5 000," paid the jockey. Time will show what these opinions were worth. The comic ballad "A Triplet," whicfr appears in "Punch" this week (January 22), is by Mr Odel), find forms one of that come* dian's most acceptable rerrtitt ns. The reviewers are unanimous in pronouncing Mr Kider Haggard* "She," a, daring and ambitious, but very unequal work. Nevertheless ifc pells wall. Three editions have boors disposed of since New Year 's Day. Owing partly ro tho publication of Mra Henry Wood's portrait (not the least liko her «.oio, by-the-way). and partly to the interesting opening of her ne«v novel, " Lady Grace," the demand for the January number of the " Argosy " has been ro great aa to necessitate a re fepua of 10 000 copies. Sala's autobiography will not be published till well on in May. One of the most daring and original shilling stories published foy nuny months is"Caehel Byron's Profession," by a wellknown Socialist and litterateur named Shaw. Its nature will be guessed ar. when I explain that Cashel Byron is a gentleman's son who, owing to a combination of circumstances, becomes a prize fightex . The book can only be obtained from Simpkio, Marshall and Co , in Paternoster Row, E.C. I had a tremendous hunt for it. A study of Mr Gladstone by Mr Louis Jennings, M. P , will bo p'ublißhed next weak by Blacewoods. A new series of talos by Grant Allen, the beet living writer of short magazine stories* is promised by Chatto and Windus under the title of "The Beckoning Hand, and other stories." The same firm issue the svolumo edition of Hall Caine's "Son of Hagar,' a novel that attracted a lot of attention during its serial publication in the newspapers.