TABLE TALK. [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 266, 23 May 1888, Page 6

TABLE TALK. [FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT

About the Durham - Chetwynd CaseHow the " Success" Affair Leaked Out— Death of Editor of " Field" — Geo. Moore's New Book- " The King of the Golden River" asa School Prize — Some i'UK'ISS AT A HICUKNT SAI.MOK KIKKT EDITIONS —NICW ]{<)OI\S AND KDITIONS.

Noifchor Sir C!cor<^c Chetwynd nor Lord Duvlmm is popular in society, The aboi tivc divorce proceedings did the latter a f^ood deal of harm, as Oho general opinion was the caso should never have come into Com I. The I'nnco of Wales, who is a f i iond of the Cerard.s (Mi.sCieiard is Lady Dm ham's sister), expressed hitn.solf strongly upon (-his point, and Lord Durham was in consequence black-balled at (he Matlboiou^h Club. Sit (ieor^ois too shai p to bo well liked by tin lito. Opinionw diller as to the sttcn<;lh ot the en^e Loid Durham ha« auain^t the baronet. Sonic say his loidslup is an obstinate, piajjinatioal blockhead, and that stable-boy {<ns-,ip (utterly \\oithl<-s when lilted) will pio\e to bo the touudation of hi.s cioehet. T!)0 answer to I hi-. i-> than Mr Lowther and Loid Jlas'jnir.s ai'o nothing if not practical, and that thoy wouldn't b.ick Loid Dm ham as they do unless the( \ believed in tho j>t win Jciix' soundness of his case. " When io^uc- tail out, etc., etc.." i- a ptoverb that applies "pal-" to the (ml. Display-, ol temper c\po-cd bob!) the se.and.ils at pi cm ut convulsing spoitinn ciicle.s. The lust, occuiied in the paddock at Ale\audia I'aik after Sitcee-s lan so badly in a selling moo there. Wood (who had liddcn) ad\Hed (icnei.d Williams to let, (he u'oi thicks beast £0 at (he auction, and he di I so. Sinful.uly enough, a triend ol Wood's bid for the colt, and would ha\o o-<>t him lor a .-on<^ but for \\ bite, lhe bookmakei, n ho ran tlio animal up three 01 four hundied pound-. Wood's li lend had con-.-equently to let it <:o. The jockey happened to be \\eij>hinn out at the lime. Later, when he heaid While had bought Sueee-s, he was lurious,;uid abused hi- fiiend like a p;ck pocket, asking him if he wanted (o nun him. These woids wci c overheaid, and lepeated later, the improvement in Kuecc-s «. form within a week^mu*; them peculiar significance. At the .subsequent iu(juii\, \\ Into contossed to considerably ou'i laving his book against Success foi tlie A!e\audia I'ark race. Mr.l. 11. Walsh,toi ihii tv j eats editoi of that luciati\epiopci ty and -ucces-tul i.eusp.ijx'i " The Field," died on Sunday last at his icsidcneeat Putney,ha\injr achieved the i ipu old aj^e ot 78. Mt Walsh was known all o\er the woid a.s " Stonchcn^e,"' (he author ol <i bulky .standaid woi k on " liiitish Hiiial Spoi ts " now in it-sixteenth edition. Like most spoitin<,r wiitcis of !iis Mr WaKh uraduated on '' Bell's Lite " in its palmy da\*. Sii (J(.-o. Chetwynd has resolved to accept the rlockty I'lubs ad\ice and pio-eeule Loid Diiiham for libel. Loid llartint^ton will inob.ibly be one ot the aibitratoi -,and the Duke of Richmond another. Judj^e I law kins is piceluded liom acting t!uou<;h hti\ iiiLC piaetieally declared on Loid Dm liam's side. A rash attempt has been made to diamatise M-i.- Bumett's delightful .stoiy of " Little Loid Fauntleio}, ' and it will be pioduced next week, with Mi.-- Annie I lushes in the lf.adincf part- (the title iol<) and Mi-s Kate Koi ke as " Dearc.-t." (!coi\l'C Mooie is ooinjj (o briny 1 an action foi libc. against the " J^vcninq 1 JSew-"lor calling him a "htoiaiy prostitute" The epithet occuired in a ie\iew of Ceorjje's latest production, "The C onies-ion ot a onnfj Man, ' now running tlnouyh "Time." 1 ha\c not read thin j^reai work yet. but am a—ured it is quite woithy our Knnli-h Zola. One of the plcasaulc^t recollection- of my Childhood is associated with heating Pro-fo--oi liusk'm's dch'^htful "Km» of the! (lolden l!i\ei ' \<m\ aloud, and o\ei Doyle's mimiralik illusti.itions. I -co the London and Pnmncial School JJoaids aie usino (his sloiy fiecly a- ,1 pii/e book foi Miiin^i clnldien. The London Boa id alone <ja\i i awa\ 1,500 copies at Chi istmas. Thc\ could hanllj ha\e made a better s- Icf tion. The (tile is sweet and w holesome, \ct full of 1 oinance and ad\cnture, and the dhishnlions are Doric's best woik. lie mc\ci, 111 fact, did an} tiling better. By the v .a\, .'it Solheb} s auction 100 - on Monday a lii.-t edition of " Tlie KiiiL: of the (iolden Tsi\ei " (1R51) fetched LlO. It was in ju'ilect condition eeit.iinly, but L'lo for a \ ool: oii^in dly jnibli-htd at 2s 6d" What aie bibliomaniacs fomincr to? At the. Ninio silc a first edition of " Alir e'i Ad\enlme,s in \\'ondeiland ' (1866). which is eompaiat\\ely -peaking a modem book, -old loi Ub 10s ;' Ci.i> s Elejry (1751) letched L'o6 ; Milton's L\ciflas, L' 34 ; Paradise Lost (KI6P.) Ll5 ; Koycr'.s Poems (JGS^), CO 9s; (iullnci's Tia\cls (1726-7), Ll5 10* : Teim% \ -on s "In Memoiiam " (1050), L' 4 : Swiiil.umes Ino in- and Ball.-id.s (18(50). C 2 12-; Swinbuine'.s " ' v >ucen Mother" (published In Pickeiinn in l;-, 60), C 9: (Juy'- F.iblcs (1755), L"9 5-; Dickens's "Pickwick" (in p,ut-, and not \ciy clean), CI2 15^; aiid "M.istei Ihimphiey's Clock" (in jwrt.s), I?) 12- 6d. All thc-(M\erc, of couisc, uuaianteed lii.-t edit ioi)^, clean, in good condition, anil oltcn w ell bound. The amusino ot " Letter^ fioin Old Fiiends,' 1 now appealing in tho "St •lames's (la/otte,*' aie \eiy evidently Irom tlic same pen as " Letters to Dead Authors" Andiew Lainu wjaci'r }>/ inn />•< at imitating styles. il. S. Wintoi's "Confessions of a Publisher ' is a bitter attack on the head ot a well-known turn in the London tiade. Othei authors ha\o had their k'ii\e» into him bcloie, notably Mr Besuit. Mis I lent v Wood's no\cl.s will not outlive ihi^ ocnoi.ition. The new edition of " East Lynne " .sold faul\ well, but its .successor, "The Chauniiifjs " (w hich used to be almost a^ popular) w.is \eiy pooily subsetibed. A cheap edition of that altogether admit able novel illustrative of lii.sh life and character, " fsmay's Children," comes out next week. I\li«s Caroline Fothcrgill, who last year achieved some success wit-h " An Enthusiast," has followed i(> uj) with another wither clover story entitled " A Voice in the Wilderness." Her work cannot, however, for a moment be compared with Kate FotherRill's. Thoieprintof "Sartor Resaitus" in the Camelot ('lassies seriep is the best ot the many new editions of this woik now in the market.