266 " MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE ! " 



and brushed out the names, telling him they were wrong 

 and had to be transposed. 



It was on account of The Whitehall Review that I first 

 went to see Sir Thomas Lennard and the Belhus hunters, 

 which in those days he used to get together for an annual 

 sale. A rare good sportsman he was. Those visits used 

 to be most enjoyable as bringing back something of the 

 old life. Moreover, he had Prince Charlie standing at 

 Belhus Park for a season or two. 



As an instance of the variety of our work on The White- 

 hall Review, I recall that I wrote the article on the death 

 of Lord Beaconsfield, in 1881, and I never put more 

 genuine sentiments of sorrow into any article, for I had 

 always looked on the dead leader as immeasurably superior 

 to every other statesman of the century, and, beyond that, 

 his whole career and his books appealed to me very 

 strongly. His very motto Forti nihil difficile is a 

 friend in need when you are down on your luck. I have 

 made many pilgrimages to Hughenden Manor, just to 

 think quietly about Disraeli. 



But mournful subjects were not greatly in vogue with 

 us, and the editor and I wrote the whole of a Christmas 

 Number, entitled Our Golden Youth, which was not half 

 a bad one. Moreover, we brought out a coloured cartoon, 

 which went like wildfire. The subject was a Design for 

 a Memorial Window. Gladstone and Bradlaugh were 

 represented as mediaeval saints, one holding the Bible 

 and the other Fruits of Philosophy. It was at the 

 time when there was all the row on about Bradlaugh and 

 his oath, and he was supported by Gladstone. 



The superscription of the two figures in the cartoon was 

 " Sanctus Sanctissimus," and the underline : " By their 

 fruits ye shall know them." 



It would not seem a striking cartoon now, by any means, 

 but it took the town by storm at that time, being, as it 

 was, a welcome novelty. 



The Gladstone Government had come into power in the 

 spring of 1880. Lord Beaconsfield had been Premier 



