... THE NATIONAL GALLERY ILLUSTRATED. p Wc ?? rot long ago the first two volaimes of the important work which Messrs. CGiasell 1and Co. had projected upon the National Gallery. 'I'lle schemlle was to illustrate, in a manner worthy of the art to be cometmoriited ...

... have added an illustrated edition of Fenimore Cooper's famous tales of the noble red man to their Standard Novels, and we reproduce one of Mr. H. M. Brock's clever drawings to The Deerslayer. HETTY VISITS THE IROQUOIS CHIEr From the New Edition of Fenimore ...

... Wives of Windsor- at the COAIEDY, and The Ring Mistress at the LYRIC- which came forth a trifle in advance of Boxing Day-the Christmas novelties at all houses of any importance in town and suburbs may be said to be pantomimes. Shock-Headed Peter at the GARRICK ...

... two fine temples of amusement have been established in central London-viz , the London Hippodrome, in Leicester- square, and the Euston Theatre of Varieties that is to be opened on Christmas Eve. The first has won a remark- able position in the lighter ...

... everybody. wosrks zealously, with miost satistaotoryj results. WEST LONDON TTEn. None of the old fairy-tales would Mrl. William Bailey have- to folud his pnnto. mime on. .ie has gone infor a new and eriginal piece altogether, The Pearl of the East; ,or, the ...

... upon whom the Spirits of Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future exercisesuch a marvellous influenceisimpressive, and eminently successful as a piece of character acting. Mr Alec Hurley plays the leading role in a new scena, by E. W. Rogers ...

... NEW PLAYS OF THE MONTH. LoNDON. Faa. 1. Rupert of Hcntz-au, sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda, in four acts, by Anthony Hope (originally produced on Oct. 5tb, 1899, at the Theatre Royal, Glasgow)-St. James's. 1. Onkel Brasig, lebensbild, founded on the ...

... metropolis, take us from London to the African veldt and home again with the rapidity only attained by melodrama, while in the last act there is a remarkably quick change fxom the squalid interior of a house situated befow London-bridge to a brilliantly ...

... n whein the late Mr Gascoigne opened the Marylebone - now the West London - Theatre, in September, 1886, Detounced having been well received both in the provinces and at other London theatres. The drama belongs to that numerous class depending almost ...

... THE LONDON THEATRES. THE STANDARD. On Monday, Dec. 10th the Drama, by Geo. R. Sims and i N LONDON TOWN.' Since this drama was produced at the Crown, Peck- &'am, in the autumn of 1899, it has afforded delight to thousands of provincial playgoers, who never ...

... Betty .Miss MARIE CARaIALT Footman ?? Mr C. WAKEMAN It was on Sept. 25th, 1886, that Miss Dorothy Ban- tam made her first bow before an audience, and the theatre was the London Gaiety. But a curious fact in connectionwith the remarkably popular musicalplay ...

... will not prevent the volatile Alec from fulfilling his Christmas engagement. ?? THE highly successful combination formed for the production throughout the kingdom of Mr Mark Mel- ford's famous London Pavilion sketches continues its prosperous career, and ...