THE FIELD 
415 
ZT^uiorale of certain pieces recently produced in that 
nr. lien, latitude; and as our very clear-sighted friend 
Punch seems of the samo opinion, wo beg to place before 
«ur readers a short extract from his paper, entitled 
£»(*ODLE MEPIIISTOPHELES AT THE PRINCESS’S. 
No man. liko a Frenchman, cun trim a poodle. This, we 
'I lievo, m0 y bo conceded as a national merit. N<> man, 
dike a Frenchman, can so quickly tench n poodle so many 
^ - , <3 . to fetch and carry; stand on three legs; pick 
Liters’ from a biscuit alphabet ; and, in a word, riuoll the 
things that make the cleverest of dogs. The skill M perfect' 
chin" cannot bo denied to the patience and intelligence of 
• 1 , fl nch°«eiiius; and, assuredly, Mons. Carre has marvel- 
lously vindicated tho Gallic ability by so trimming and 
'icaclting Goetho’s Poodle, alias MefihhtQphelt's, llttft Mils 
.orieyoator would never know him again. 
9sjst thou the black dog — (says Fault to Wagner) — iranging 
r 1 hmueh the corn amt stubble ? 
jP/z./U Mark bin. well ! For what do yon take the brute ? 
Wagner- For a poodto who, In Ids way, Is puzzling out the track ol 
thou mark liow. In wido spiral curves, he qnctKTenwd 
and mw near us? and, If 1 err not, a lino of Arc follows upon Ids 
^TVagner. Ilacc nothing but a black poodle. 
Such was tho conviction 1 of Mons. Michel Cane; and so, 
in J8al, he goes to work, and trims and shapes Goetho’s 
poem ol Faust into u thing for the French stage : and the 
thing— pwwlle-likc— having had its run upon nil-fours in 
Paris, may now be seen u idler the very moral management 
of Mr. Charles Kean, in Oxford-strcot. A mere 1 poodle ; 
an( l— for u poodle— one of tho dullest dogs Unit ever defeated 
u teacher. But that the poodlo should have 'been trimmed 
twa (Frenchman was, doubtless, Its excelling recommendation 
So * manager who prefers his plays, even ns his gloves, 'to 
be of Paris make. Tlnjy can be so -stitched lo fit, Mod bts 
fee'd so easily in band ! 
For what could tlio startled, confounded manager have 
done T.’Rh tho Mephistophelvs of Goethe? lie would have 
eAnfkenat its power ; and haply have transgressed under it, 
Hike a poodle itself scared and frightened by Jove’s thunder 
and .lightning. Now, poodle Mephistophelrs, as trained nnd 
Bought by Mons. Carre, was an aniinul not beyond the 
giowersof'fhe master of the Princess’s revels— a puppy-dog 
ito be led in a string, or carried undov tlie arm, -even as 
[puppy-dogs are tethered and borne by flunkeys. 
“ Driven behind tho stove''— (roves Faust of the real poodle, Goethe's 
moodle)-" it is swelling like nn elephant; It tills the whole space ; it 
is about to vanish into mist, disc not to the coiling ! Down at thy 
.-muster's feet ! Thou seest I do not threaten in vain ; -1 Will scorch thee 
-with holy tire. Walt not for the thrice-glowing Bight. Walt not for 
the strongest of my spells." 
Now .bore are thunderbolt words, and scathing conjura- 
tions, 'flint a common manager, a niorcly simple, provider for 
u simple public, can hardly be expected to confront and 
live through. And these filings are of Goethe’s poodle: 
but tho Ffendlimim teaches the dog to answer Ho a very 
different sort of order : hence, when the poodle or Mephis- 
iopkeltts of the Princess’s enters upon his two logs, he runs 
in, with no more of the devil in him than may be expected 
wi the dullest of footmen, with just enough df spoech to he 
stupid upon -any subject, and cm tho very shortest notice. 
Never was poodle cut so bare — shorn so close that the very 
skin has been nipped by the scissors, and still shows the 
irosigltCly wounds — .never -was poor poodle so maltreated as 
Goouke’s tremendous black dog by The irreverent Frenchman. 
HKiuwirtthelesfi, ®u easy loritie has -fle-cl tired in favour ol M. 
«0a!w£'e dog, as it appears in the hands, or upon the arms o I 
Mr. Charles Kean, — saying in jadTifioutimi 6f t!he clipping 
nmfl exposure The poodle, as shown at the Princess's — 
“ One person, if he hail now been living, would liave decided on the 
■wisdom of tho manager, who having on effective Easter piece in view, 
-selected the low-art fabrication of M. Micliol Carre in preference to 
The high-art creation of tho German poet. The person we mean is— 
Goethe himself.” 
Just as it might bo said, “ one person, when Mr. Charles 
Kean shall enter into Elysium, will ut least step forward 
and embrace him for Iris acting of 1 Shnkspere,’ w ill, every 
conceivable and inconceivable sconic effect, and the person 
we mean is — Shakspcre himself !” Even as Goethe might 
hug and thank Michael Carre lor his “ low-art fabrication ” 
(his low-cutting of the jacket of tho poodle), so will Shaks- 
jiere embrace Air. Charles lor his fabrication with very low 
cuttings of Cibber’s “ Richard the Third." Wonderful must 
ftie the sources of gratitude in tho Fields of tho Blest ! 
The “Fuustand Marguerite" — at the Princess’S — shows 
Mr. Charles Kean to be a born spectacle-maker. As William 
Pitt was said to be a ‘‘heaven-descended minister,” so by a 
liberal stretch of compliment Mr. Charles Kean — as deve- 
loped in his last wonder — may be considered a heaven-de- 
scended showman. Or if any of our readers should think 
the terms too strong, they have only to reverse them, 
choosing upward epithets from the opposite. 
Wonderful is the process by which all the poetry, all 
the gvundcur is discharged from Goethe, the imagination 
and subtleties of the Muster being supplied by the 
pulleys of tho machinist and the colours of the segno- painter! 
Everything of life and beauty has been extracted, and a 
caput mortuum — that is, Charles Kean’s Mephistopheles — 
remains. 
And yet Mr. Kean never acted so naturally in all his life. 
Ho was quite down to tho part ; his perceptions of the poetic 
trotting upon four legs. He, no doubt, felt the triumph of 
common- place, and rejoiced in his element. We have been 
accustomed to associate with Mephistopheles a devilish 
subtlety ; a laughing spirit in the eye, burning like burning- 
glass. Mr. Kean was more consonant with bis poodle- 
trimmer: ho had no more subtlety iu his speech than the 
waiter at the Dog Tavern; nothing more scorching in his 
looks than might flush from brass buttons. There was bold- 
ness, but no burning. 
Some of the scenic effects ore very beautiful, and worthy 
of the Princess’s ns a gallery of illustration. Tho vision of 
Marguerite— (thanks to Marguerite horsclf!) — was very 
lovely ; and the procession to the cathedral showed that the 
inunagor had been a profound observer of tho condition and 
demeanour of poople going to prayers. The sprinkling of 
babies wus very judicious, and a little touching. 
The musical contest for the soul of Marguerite between 
the demons under tho stugo and tho angels over it, was 
somewhat bold upon a moral English public : but when the 
soul of Marguerite, in white muslin, borne by angels in 
sutin petticoats was carried to heaven (“ without wires,” 
cries a critic, hysterical with ndniirallon) — tho delight of 
the gods was perfect. 
The morality of Marguei'ite — as painted (in rouge) by 
M. Carrd — gives us rather Marguerite from tho Palais 
Royal than Marguerite from tho well. Wo would advise 
Mr. Kean to take a viow of tho latter, so exquisitely painted 
by Aliss Howitt. It may do him good, os a royal and 
moral manager. 
As a piece of show and mechanism (wires IWWW) Faust 
and Marguerite will draw tho eyes of tile town ; elpWiaUy 
tho eyes that have least bfains behind them. It is the very^ 
triumph of vulgar showiness, uninformed by n Apavk ol, 
genius. Mr. Kean’s poodle is -wll over u very thill dog ; a 
dog without a bit of the wag in him, oven hi his tail. 
Nevertheless there is one triumph duo to thTsacTPr. 1J' S 
new nose is perfect : it has tho true demoniacal enfve. Mo 
never saw u better viow of the Devil’s Bridge. 
or nearly so); 1 saw thole official, SPtfh?t*C JWSf&Srl TU h . Py 
1.AV,- xho blessings of thclrsoMlers am! thcii^Mlors fbr their unpatriotic 
Providence protect them ! for ttnvptiWlc-or tho press wont, after a 
few more letters' tYOtn Gfdttpob- - . „ 
Tonts.wc-, Barm 
The 7 If nitrated Book of Poultry . Edited by Martin 
iDoYilh. Routlodge & Co. 
illustrated by WfNQALL & Dick us, tho Editor lias cer- 
tainty an undoubted right to hope that this book will make 
n noise in the world, and to crow tit the Highest pitch of 
“ bright Chanticleer tllut salutes 'life morn,’’ upon Its 
attractive quality. A more elaborate und well-grtt-lfjj Work 
could not have been published in this age of Poditl'y. frum 
tho comical dhoti Book Rumpler , or Bumpkin, tb ’fho 
stately Peacock. A reader of this history of Hie;egg pro- 
ducing species must be'ftiecinated into becoming a ‘Breeder ; 
for ourselves we have many and of good sorts, und will'lidve 
more. The Bumkin, ortho Tail-less, or Cock of Persia, so 
called hy Buffon, tickles our fancies amazingly. Mr. Nolan, 
the breeder, practically pronounces the flesh to bo white und 
juicy, and wo can vouch that, pictoriully, they arc “ food for 
’mirth,” especially from tlio lack of “ caudal ornament.” 
Duftbn, and Virginian colonists absurdly considered that on 
'their being sent Iroin England to Virginia, the change of 
Climate deprived thorn of tho “ caudal ornament,’’ and 
whimsically argued from analogy, that as European dogs, 
with long ears, loso their bark and acquire straight ears in 
the tropics, so tho loss 'df’tlio tail in fowls is a much less re- 
markable singularity from the effects of climate. But no 
doobt they lire as distinct a specios, as a Manx-cat, or 
“ the i'Ht without a hill” of St. Helena. Every bird of 
repute is 'treated of, in a -perfectly understandable manner, 
science being relieved 'by good sound common sense, most 
pleasnnily conveyed. The coloured representations of tlio 
various kinds, really mrtke us feci that it is a sin not to re- 
turn to the time of Osesifr, when Britons bred fowls, not for 
eating, but for their fancy and pleasure. Coops, fowl-houses, 
and every variety of information is so clearly laid down, t hat 
to err iu the rearing df 'these feathered luxuries must bo tlio 
consequence of inatlonlPioii. 
Notice. — Several reviews of Boohs arc postponed until 
vent week, in consequence qf the great press of Baring 
matter.— Ed. 
TACKLE FOR SAl.Mtal. 
Sre, — \Vonltl either your Correspondent ‘‘AY. If.,” or some otner or 
your many readers who are re.ili.y toai-tical workmen, tie fcinil 
enough to give a youngster a hint or two with respect to tho needful 
In the way ot tackle tit for salmon fishing ? I'oing About to pay a 
visit of some duration to a gqoil neighbourhood, I am desirous to Who 
that which is useful, and whielv old practical hands would kindly point 
out, Task for infortnatloTt'Ctifcfly upon theso points,— 
1st, 'What Is the best length' for tho rod for casting tho salmon-fly T 
■Jqd. What Is tho test length nml tho best material for tho llnof — 
silk, hpir, ■prMlk and hair, or hemp;' and about what degree of flno- 
no si. I f silk or t(Kinp, would It tie tiost prepared toreslst wet ?, 
3 rd.' Whit Shtfnjtd tie tho siro of tho winch ? 'should It bo rlam or 
multiplying -wood or brass ? - . 
4 tb. The length and mako of tho gut easting. end. I mean, should It 
be twisted gutntrho union with the 1 line, Smi sin glo stout satotonwjut 
noxt the fly, or'Mnglocdjlt only? . 
The river In which tho nboro would he used Is tolerably tirdffil.Wnd 
fish run up to about lull’s, and oyer. 
If any of your practical correspondents will nhl mo In the ljifotWia- 
tlon I need, I should bo very much obliged ; for though very ftWul of 
sport, l am aware that an omnlufn gatherum purchase of oil a London 
llshlng-tacklo shop offers, Is not always a sure moans to dll' the ofpel, 
though It may easily exhaust the little, tin which, no(wUh|tAVidlAg all 
endeavours, will always bo In fho pocket Of' four humble 'lervAut aud 
constant render, A YOuNdntf.u. 
Smelt. 
Sir, — Peeing thfit yonr correspondent “ Minnow" Is anxious fir an 
account respecting the “Smelt," tho following might ho Of somouso 
to him . r 
It appears tho true Smelt seems to bo confined, as a BrUraa fish, 
to the eastern and western coasts of our Island; Its place along tho 
southern coast being occupied by tho Snml Smelt, which Is very plen- 
tiful and of excellent quality. It Inhabits tho riven from August to 
May; It spawns In March, after which tho shoals return to thy sea. 
Tho Medway produces Smelts of nn excellent kind. Alohg the 
eastern const, especially Lin eolii shire, numbers ate nut eh In shallow 
bars. They also occur In tlio SwUle, in Ewox. 1 havo hoard that a 
gentleman In Yorkshire inirodueed sohie Smelt* 1 Into ono of Jtl* ponds, 
having tin communication with tho son; boro they remained for four 
years, and greatly multiplied. Tho Sroolt Is also n ♦ornoloits nsh, and 
devours young fry, shrimps, and niollusks. ,, 
If tho “ Minnow" ts nnxious to take thorn, n Spjall No. B or J hook, 
baited with u small pleco of on eol, will bo eagerly' taken. In tilting, 
tlnjy nlwuYs throw the tloat up. From July to -December Is tho best 
season for catching thorn. Mnu_v anglei's (with tnitou patlonco) may 
take 20 dozen In a day. Yours, &e. TOMIIT. 
DRY ROT IN FEliltETS. 
Sm,— Cun h>y of your *ubscrlbora point out to mo a euro for Dry 
Rot in Ferrets ? Yours, &o., 
Bowdloy. si- 
salmon FISHING IN IRELAND. 
Sin,— Would any of your numerous conuspondoms obllgo mo with 
particulars as to tho Salmon and White Trout fishing In tlio Costello 
River and adjoining streams, near Galway ? Any Information ns to 
tlio best now work on tlio Salmon Fishing on tlio West Coast of Ire- 
land will bo thankfully received by, 
Liverpool. Ix°WC« 
GREYHOUNDS. 
Sir,— T beg to return my best thunks to “C- H. W." for his letter 
about tho best method ot training Greyhound*; and 1 hope ho will 
not consider mo troublasomo In asking a question or two more: — 
First, ono which I put In my Inst letter, viz, -whether It Is preferable 
to exercise them In a field or In lanes f If In a field, should they not 
bo taught to run round and round tho outside of If, until stopped by 
tho person In charge of them? How arc they best taught to do this r 
Is It of any use to exercise them in tliolr clothes? How long ought a 
puppy to be in training which Is to come out In November ? LxclUO 
me for ihus trespassing on your time again. Tho publication ol this 
In your valuable “ Letter Ilag " will greatly obllgo, 
1 Yours, ’1 T«o. 
PROBLEM No. !55. 
By tub 11 by of Tonis. 
Black. 
On r fttttt-iag. 
INTERPRETERS IN TURKEY. 
To the Editor of “ Tun Field.” 
Sir, — I havoperceived in sevoralof your Nuiubcrs, reprints so altered 
from their first appearance in tho Metropolitan Press, that I am 
thoroughly convinced you havo on your literary staff men who havo 
lived in Turkey. Inin glad of it. For In reprinting you have set 
right what from want of local knowledge was originally and evidently 
wrong. The question of the day is the Turkish War; the laches of tlio 
Government— their want of foresight in not providing interpreters tor 
the troops, “ Oh !’’ but say some of our «/m d mines, “ there are inter- 
preter-. Just look hero at tho Daily Fetes." Now, Sir, 1 like tlio 
Daily News: but it is indisputably wrong in the following, which it 
has last week inserted, with satisfaction to itself, under ihe heading of 
“ The Eastern Expedition. 
“Malta, April 22.- On the loth, Commissary General Filder (who 
arrived from England on tho 13th, hy Colombo K examined into the 
claims of the parties who had been invited by public advertisement to 
send in applications to accompany tho commissunut to the East us 
clerks and interpreters. Very many applied, for Malta Is a famous 
place to acquire the Turkish and Arabic languages. Many withdrew 
when they understood that the situation would not entitle them to be 
considered as gentlemen. The pay Is 4s„ 6s. Gd.. and 7s. 6d. per day. 
A few engaged ; and the number of applicants who applied and proved 
their knowledge of Arabic, Modern Greek, and Turkish, showed that 
interpreters may bo easily had atlow salaries." 
Thus writes the correspondent of the Daily Aeiri. Now, Sir, these 
interpreters are not “to be considered ns gentlemen." Argal, our 
guardsmen, and other officers, are not to liave gentlemen ns interpre- 
ters. They are to be “ assisted " by a kind of a sort of a courier, but, 
oertes, not by a gentleman! „ 
Mr. Editor, they will find themselves in a pretty Rickie. The 
haughty Turk will not receive an interpreter who is not a gentleman 
without classing him among those liberated gaol-birds who bang 
about Levantine hotels and scatas, and show "the lions to travellers. 
If the engaged “ applicants who proved their knowledge : ?) of Arabic, 
Modern Greek, and Turkish," (who examined them i) nre not gentle- 
men, they cannot associate with our soldier officers; and If they don t 
associate with them, of what use can they be In business with 1 ashas, 
and other ceremonious notables? And then, again, I take leave to 
doubt their knowledge of Turkish. “ A few engaged. So says the 
Daily News. Avery few Indeed, I should think. They must have 
been very hard-up to accept throe half-crowns n-day, at the higheit, 
where a knowledge of two languages was concerned. Three pounds 
ten shillings a-week, multiplied by fifty-two weeks, will be no great 
annual catch. Be this as it may, the Army— take my woid for It 
will soon cry out for better interpreters. And it ought ^to havo them 
cj: Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Dublin, and also from Addls- 
combo? Uafleybury , and Woolwich. But, Sir, (Oh ! that some Member 
of Parliament would take up the subject), is Turkish anywhere taught 
ill England ? I repent that question— „ 
“Is Turkish anywhere Taught in England - 
1 boldly answer “ No." 
Is it taught in Fiance ? Yes. 
Is it taught in Austria? Yes. 
Is it taught in Russia ? Yos. .... . 
These countries have their own countrymen to a k and to write 
Turkish, but England teaches Greek and Latin, and leaves the more 
uaofYil rest to that , „ 
« Sweet little cherub that sits np aloft 
To watch over tho life of poor Jack.” 
Sir wo must at once do better; Turkish must be taught in Eng- 
land; Navarlno must be forgotten, and Nicholas be remembered. We 
havo been Idle ; we must now be Industrious. Idle ? ‘ <'* . there is 
so SUCH WORK AS AN ENGLISH AND TURKISH Dl- TIOXABY or GRAM- 
MAR 1 defy the Government to show us that there s; anil I - defy 
!,c Government— I mean the Foreign Office, Adniiraty, and (Horse 
Guards especlolly-to say that they have not been repeatedly asked to 
aid In bringing out ono or both of these works. I saw the applications 
to them in the 5 writing of one applicant at least, (I *° 
desperation, Is now olsewhcre-perhaps with & turban round his brow, 
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The following game wns played between Mr. H’Sbllivav, ono 
of the best players in tlio United States, und Mr. L. Williams . 
ur„.«n Hf.U’K. 
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Mr. Williams. Mr. O'Sullivan. 
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Mr. Williams. 
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H. B takes R P 
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Mr. O'Sullivan, 
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One Hundred Miles of Hedge. — T he Illinois Qenlral 
Railroad Company have contracted with Jas. Sumpter it Co., 
of Montgomery county, Ohio, for hedging with o-ugo orujgo 
ono hundred miles of the Illinois Central Railway. Tie 
contract commences fifty miles south of Chicago, near the 
Kanukukce river. These two hedges, each one hundred miles 
long, will require about two millions of osago plunU. The 
ground along the line is to be ^oken thm sum^mcr and the 
planting is to be done in tho spring of 18oo. The porUon to 
be hedged is through th© centre of the Grand PralHe of 
Illinois where groves are frequently thirty or forty miles 
apart, and the plants of this hedge will be tho oftly thlng li 1 
the shune of a tree in sight upon some parts of the line. 
It will have a very pleasing effect, iu breaking the monotony 
of Ihe landscape aid marking out the line of the road. - 
Daily Cleveland Herald. 
