... person may angrily reject the theatrical substitutes fbr the beautiful dreams of his own youth and for those of his religious friends. lie hardly knows whether to laugh or to groan when be sees 'comfortings spirits represented by the average stage angel ...

... to St. Grouse, how much they are prepared to abandon in order that honour- atie gentlemen may go to shoot, fish, or hbut until C~hristmas; the last stage is devoted to what are called extra parliamentary utteranceb of members who ende-vour to prove ...

... apply it to matters of Art. Those RAules of old discover'd, not devised, Are Nature still, but Natore methodised Nature, like Liberty, is but restrabi'd By the saine lee's wehich first herself orulaiuid. Quitting the subject of Art in its widest extent ...

... forth. At any rate, they cry, let us have one Theatre where the classic glories of our Stage may he enjoyed. No doubt it would be a good thing for English dramatic art if we had a Theatre in London doing for the Drama here what the Cornidie Fraas~aise ...

... opposition. Dumesnil was a natural gunius who owed nothing to art; while Clairoe, heing poorly endowed with tragic gifts. antd devoid of genuine feeling, 'was the very per- sonificatioti of art eliminating nature. One was all impulse, the other all artifice; ...

... that the mission of the stage is only to amuse. Though by no means a serious person, in all seriousness the writer of the condemned jeremiads would not have promulgated that aphoristic dogma for worlds. Our case is that if the stage of to-day is a gigantic ...

... could not possibly frame the excuse that I had not seen it. You cannot compass a stage scene in a pocket, though you may secrete a pocket compass there I The duties of a stage-doorkeeper are neither onerous nor multifarious, though there is a sameness pervading ...

... TRADE UNIONS ON TIHE STAGE. OFTEN was my hand itching to write about what I saw on the English stage; but I never had the courage to do so since I met with a somewhat unsuccessful experiment with Mdlle. Formosa. I have since seen but very bad English ...

... well as in a strict observance of the first rule of the actor's art, which consists in never asking a voice, however feeble it may be, to render more than it can. On the stage, he says, force lies in accent, not in sonority. An idea well expressed ...

... SOME STAGE OPTICAL ILLUSIONS. It has been reserved for its modern professors to raise the art of optical deception to the dignity of a scientific performance by availing themselves of modern discoveries in optics, pneumatics, electricity, and other ...

... THE ART OF BURLESQUE. THERE are some interesting questions connected with what, for distinction, sake, we may call the illegitimate drama to which the inquiring mind might be directed during the comic season at the theatres. What the swallows did with ...

... beaten the English aristocracy on the Corn-law question. However that may be, the Crimean War broke out, and an era of wars at once set in. The task of any community which wishes to keep the peace has become more difficult a hundredfold. A vast body of resent- ...