... difficulty of 44 lack of pence, which was rendered more than ever deadly in llarcourt Williams's time by the bringing of Sadler's Wells into the scheme. On the whole he can hardly have felt very sad when the four years' struggle was ove.r. To many readers ...

... sensational incidents. Some of us can still recall the stock seasons at the old Britannia, Hoxton, the Pavilion, Whitechapel, Sadler's Wells, the Marylebone and other London theatres, as well as the Adelphi dramas, the Melville reign at the Lyceum, and plays ...

... and that famous scholar Richard Porson. as well as reproductions of playbills and announcements of the old Surrey and Sadler's Wells, of Cremorne and Vauxhall. Among the personalities sketched lightly for the most part in those brightly written pages ...

... English circus, which had its begin- I nings in Lambeth with Philip Astley. though there had already been circus acts at Sadler's Wells and other places. Astley was born in 1742, and at 17 was an expert horseman. Later he joined the 15th Dragoons but at ...