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LONDON REVISITED.
III-MME TUSŠAUD'S,
Thers is nothing else quite like Mme. exhibition, magnificently housed, which is Tussaud's in London-a privately owned over a hundred years old and is going a strong sa ever.
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feel it my duty as a journalist, one sworn to those high standards of truth symbolised by the giant gooseberry and the raining frogs (the sacred emblems of the guild), to announce to the world that waxwork figures. The more lifelike they I have a strong personal repugnance to t know the reason of the recent vataN- trophic fall of snow. t'ertainly the world are the more deathlike they seem to me. I would not spend a night among them was as much startled by it as it could alone, not even with the Archbishop of have berm, I will not say by a shower of Canterbury, Ceneral Booth, and Dr. Frogs laut by a shower of crocodiles (which
for any money you could offer. sounds like an Eleventh Plague of Egypt. me. But I came away very much inter- fall of the richest local colour), or by asted from my recent visit to me. gooseberry bigger than th pimpkin which Tussaud's. The Napoleon relies aloite are was big enough for Cinderelin's "coach worth the money charged for the whole And curiously enough, the awful truth i There are
of his, carriage, three of his am about to reveal had a direct connee.
ing the one in which he made the tion with that fantastic each and campaign of Russia, which was captured
on It arose out of a Cinde There it is, exactly as he got in and out the evening of the battle of Waterloo. pumpkin. rella pantomime in Beaconsfield, at of it, the cushions on which he sat, the which had myself offered (though in desk on which he wrote, a very speaking nin) to create the part of the pumpkin living relic of the past. And there are It is a passive part; and my acting is of many other exhibits with an equal-per- the passive, restrained orbåtoical school; sonal appeid. Which would seem to be needed if anybody But these are not warworks. is to remain a passive pumpkin while a Coach i carved out of him. The extra- There are Louis XVI and Marie Antoi
The guillotined heads are very much so.. ordinary psychical event which I now narrate, to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and and offers, taken immediately after nette, Robespierre, Fouquier-Tinville, and the Cominos, took place under local condiexecution, by order of the National Con- tions which I think I have described vention, by lime. Tussaud's own hands. before in these columns, and hope I shall live to describe again-those of the Christmas pantomime organised at Burn ham Hall by the admirable Convalescent Hour of Beaconsfield. There were several original artistic humours in this parti cular Christmas pantottime. One of them that it did not take place at Christmas.
but was put off till Easter on account of induenza, and nearly (for all I know). put off till Michaelmas for fear of rabics. That austere school of theatrical art. Founded on Greek and Oriental
(drama, which wishes all our actors to appear in masks, might perhaps be grati fed if they all appeared in muzzles. "But such speculations, however philosophicat, would lead as far from the miraculous story of the fall of snow. It cannot be doubted that in thus boldly shifting the festivities of one season to another. Miss Hennell and Miss Meates, the organisers of the Convalescent Home, made an ex- periment with the elemental qualities of time and space which, if I may say sny convalsed the cosmic order and brought upen is all the calamities which we en- dured for fully twenty-four hours; s development for which these ladies will doubtless be held responsible
What a commission for a young woman who had known the royalties at least. intimately She had been taught her art by her uncle, who was scalptor in cero- plastics to Louis XVI, and
Taught it in turn to Mme. Elizabeth, the king's sister, with whom she resided at the Tuileries and at Versailles. Think of her at her ghastly work with those severed henda!
Her own gure probably in the very clothes she wore, is one of the most inter- Hur diminutive esting in the exhibition. agure stands at the head of the lovely sleeping Mme. Amaranthe guillotined at the age of twenty-two Mme. Tassand came to England after the Revolution and brought her relics of horror with her showing them all over the country and settling with them in London in 1833 She was ninety when she died in 1380, and was followed by her son; grandson, and great-grandson in succession. Truly a notable record, and carrying one" far back into the past!
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The Hall of Kings is also interesting, and so are the historic tableaux in the Lower Hall. The costumes alone and the armour are, well worth seeing. When it comes to the modern celebrities my dis taste for the whole business of waxwork increases to such an extent that I have always been opposed to trifling, unable to Ridge them impartially with the problems of the universe, in the for the Chamber of Horrors, frivolous fashion which has defaced thrill that can
alone. But I can imagine the sort of be obtained from it by maar spiritualistic investigations; and
it and I have few of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's icenti. the very fact of my shirking.
those who like to fications or coincidences are so convincing
underg *cell as that involved here. Doubtiers the taken from old Nowgate Prison in which ladies of the Beaconsfield Home thought Lord George Gordon died of it would be the best joke in their Christ and one or two other exhibits, but I
gaol fever mas pantomime to leave out Christmas. should have felt very uncomfortable in "Doubtless they considered that inviting the society of all those murderers. The the passer-by to a Christmas pantomime guillotined heads and Marat in his bath at the end of April was a new and im gave me all the thrilly horror that aginative manner of making him an April wanted." fool. But the dark deities which pre- side, as the pagana held, over dates and
no quarrel with thos it. I should like bare seen
to
games and even numbers, made their pre- with the people who did it, and the con- sence felt in a manner which must openvalescent home for which it was done. It
a new chapter in the study of comparative would, perhaps, be an exaggeration to religion. It is permissible to hope that it say that this is the only charity I ever may be a more intelligent chapter than came across that was in the least charit- the last nine hundred and ninety-nine abio; but I shall always do my best to bear chapters that have appeared, in which winess to a certain spirit of liberty and the professors seem really to have been humanity which made the link between it occupied in proving that Christmas Eve and a lady whose public work has been! is Easter day and Easter Day's Walpar almost alone in always liberating and gis Night; that a working week-day is a never enslaving, and whose name I cannot witches sabbath, and that the man in pass here without a salute-the lady who the moon must undoubtedly be a solar was then Miss Margaret Douglas. Any myth It would seem that the spirits that how, as the winter play proceeded there control the elements are more sensitive grew among us that glow from within,
than this would suggest; and that the pros and not without, which is the essence of jects now entertained in Beacorifield, of the winter Icasts, the noble tradition of displaying all Easter eggs on Guy Fawkes the north. The very fact that Cinderella Day, and tossing pancakes only on the 25 a. romance of the hearth illustrates an anniversary of Trafalgar, had better by idea that even in such ashes glow our abandoned. The only hope, however, of wonted area. Such a drama necessarily elucidating the truth in this mysterious becomes a dream of domesticity, & dissolv branch of study is the sober statement afing view of interiors and indoor scenes; individual experience; and I can only and the whole tendency culminated in the narrate what I myself suw.
Our scene, which was show scene, WITH A BAJW ta' Lúd & supply of sno bais apparently as innumerabit as HOW fakes. 2 unaware tout the showballs were me or some sort of white wool;; 1 mi usare of 1 oeesuse one of them hit
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As I went up to the place of entertain ment the fields and flower gardens had look, not so much of spring, but rather of suramer. The actual blossom, ofine exactly on the end of the nose HALF A CENTURY RÉPUTATIONS course, was that of late April, but my was the was performuñiz, the last night taste in gardening (also of the passive of the Saturnalia. The actors snow basted school) is, moreover, of that large and the amulence, and the audience snow landscape-gardening spirit that is not foulied the actors; and the whole ended in particular on the point of knowing one flower from another; and in my vision for many of us long after we had gonerin:36.
an acareay of when the atmosphere last of vague sunshine the yellow blooms back to our daily WOTE in the world out might have been golden roses in June. xide. The glow of a warmer season outsideAnd the world outside was a waste of seemed to penetrate the hall of the snow. jas suddenly as white ightning out Christmas theatricals, and make them of a summer Bey, the white snowstorm seem at first strangely unseasonable. No nad struck on "znat shining borderland ting little that could be named an of summer. A north east wind cane, anachronism, still less an anti-climax, the sudden and singing, like a single arrow; spectator of the first few scenes was con: and the leather upon it was white. be scious that the whole had been planned A6wers saw as I went up to the half for a winter feast. It was a very good were swallowed, as if by an earthquake." pantomime, but it was obviously a very The painted scenery within svemed to good Christmas pantomime. Indeed, it have aprendata pallor over sif the scenery" was so good a Christmas pantomine that without All over that white landscape the illusion gathered and grew as it ad the pantomime was repeated in a hundred Vanced that the areal season was driv groups and postures up to the last para ing out the real one. I said to a neigh dox and miracle the children were snow bour, I believe they will bring it off batting with snowballs. they will bring back Christmas algostila do not propowd to found a new re fool as if there were skating outside. ligion upon there, are: kob Fmaby The Christmas atmosphere is a very real spirits for me to be a spiritualist, spirits thing, all the more real for being back-of too many cotours, and not all as white noyed; but to call a thing hackneyed is as snow i will not be one of those wire only to call it human. The man who can take a creed out of a coincidence, or ever mistake the Christmas atmosphere for out of a conjuring trick, when i do 4 anything else, for the cosmopolitan fad know the name (of the Konjibri But that calls itself. comradeship, or the tole was hard for anyone who had seen pich ration implied in a parliament of commis secne-shiting take place bolere "THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY TO universal agreement admPeace Confer it a camera obscurs, repeating rather ligions, not to mention such a scette fim, and entered the theatre and found HER
ence the man, I say cho can confuse prophesying the world withas, the microsesspoonfal of alle meant rieni these with Christmas has not only pe commafticipating the introsio wan physical but no prychological sends hard, for, him not to fancy that someo I do not know why I felt its presence signal of the ritual of Yule had brought
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