ETIAM IN ARCADIA EGO. I HAVE listened to the prattle To a sylvan wilderness. I have risen with the singing Of the old proverbial lark, And have heard the bells a-ringing I have squeezed her hand and snored me But the idyll always bored me, And I longed for something new. No-let poets love to dally Where the sun with tender ray Gilds the dear old-fashioned alley In the old poetic way. But Arcadia in December Or in May is sorrow's crown, Since in boredom I remember The delights of life in town. PROBABLE CHANGE OF NAME.-A capital mirth-provoking entertainment is just now being given at St. George's Hall by the united forces of the mysterious Masked Minstrels, Miss LOTTIE VENNE and Mr. BRANDON THOMAS in My Milliner's Bill, and Mr. GEORGE GROSSMITH in one of the very best musical sketches he has ever done, which is saying (singing and playing) a good deal. If this Show" is to be permanent (and why not? seeing that it attracts all those who patronise the theatre and those who don't), then the proposal may be made to drop the "Saint "not the "Grossmith and call it simply George's Hall, even though the entertainment is not h'all George's. 66 SOLILOQUY. "I should like that engine. Can't afford it myself. They won't buy it for me at home-too soon after Christmas. Must go in and ask the Girl to put it aside for me till next time I have the Croup or something; then Mother 'll buy it me!" THE DUMAS CRAZE. "LET 'EM ALL COME." Brown (who, with his friends Jones and Robinson, is in town for a week and is "going it "). "Now, MR. COSTUMIER, WE ARE GOING TO THIS 'ERE BALL, AND WE WANT YOU TO MAKE US HUP AS THE THREE MUSKETEERS!" A "SCHOOL" TREAT ONCE more we go to School at the Globe Theatre! Once more we welcome Mr. JOHN HARE, as admirable as ever in his original part of Beau Farintosh, a character that ROBERTSON created out of materials provided by THACKERAY'S Major Pendennis and DICKENS'S Cousin Feenix. That the play comes as a novelty to those who have the advantage (in one way) over their seniors, is proved by the interest it excites, and by the hearty appreciation with which it is received. Miss MABEL TERRY-LEWIS plays charmingly as Bella, and Miss MAY HARVEY is capital as Naomi Tighe. Mr. GILBERT HARE fits himself down to! the ground with the part of Krux, and Miss FANNY COLEMAN could not be bettered as Mrs. Sutcliffe. Mr. FRED KERR is excellent as Jack Poyntz. Miss FANNY COLEMAN, Miss MABEL TERRY-LEWIS (anything but a Miss "M. T." LEWIS, as she is full of brains), and Miss MAY HARVEY, take, and divide, the home-made cake in equal portions. Lord ATUR TEMPORIS ACTI says "there's no falling-off in the original HARE." This HARE has lasted out many a long run; has she wa us all first-rate sport; and even now Old Time's harriers haven't got within measurable distance of him, for he is going as strong as ever. And so, like "Beauty," this play draws us with a single HARE,-or rather, would do so, only there are two HARES, which fact strengthens the traction power. Prosit ! WISHING THEM A HAPPY RETURN.-From the Daily News we learn that "Sir BENJAMIN BAKER and Mr. JOHN AIRD have left London for Egypt" to look after the new Nile water-works. "Bon voyage!" et "Aux Reservoirs ! First Young Workman. "LOOK 'ERE, BILL, AS FAR AS I CAN SIZE IT UP, IF YOU AND ME BEGIN PUTTIN' BY IMMEDIATE, AND DON'T GET LOCKED OUT, OR LAID UP, OR DIE,, ETIAM IN ARCADIA EGO. I HAVE listened to the prattle To a sylvan wilderness. I have risen with the singing And have heard the bells a-ringing I have squeezed her hand and snored me But the idyll always bored me, And I longed for something new. No-let poets love to dally Where the sun with tender ray Gilds the dear old-fashioned alley In the old poetic way. But Arcadia in December Or in May is sorrow's crown, Since in boredom I remember The delights of life in town. PROBABLE CHANGE OF NAME.-A capital mirth-provoking entertainment is just now being given at St. George's Hall by the united forces of the mysterious Masked Minstrels, Miss LOTTIE VENNE and Mr. BRANDON THOMAS in My Milliner's Bill, and Mr. GEORGE GROSSMITH in one of the very best musical sketches he has ever done, which is saying (singing and playing) a good deal. If this" Show" is to be permanent (and why not? seeing that it attracts all those who patronise the theatre and those who don't), then the proposal may be made to drop the "Saint "not the "Grossmith and call it simply George's Hall, even though the entertainment is not h'all George's. ICOVENT FANCY PRI SOLILOQUY. "I should like that engine. Can't afford it myself. They won't buy it for me at home-too soon after Christmas. Must go in and ask the Girl to put it aside for me till next time I have the Croup or something; then Mother 'll buy it me!" THE DUMAS CRAZE. "LET 'EM ALL COME." Brown (who, with his friends Jones and Robinson, is in town for a week and is "going it"). "Now, MR. COSTUMIER, WE ARE GOING TO THIS 'ERE BALL, AND WE WANT YOU TO MAKE US HUP AS THE THREE MUSKETEERS!" A "SCHOOL" TREAT ONCE more we go to School at the Globe Theatre! Once more we welcome Mr. JOHN HARE, as admirable as ever in his original part of Beau Farintosh, a character that ROBERTSON created out of materials provided by THACKERAY'S Major Pendennis and DICKENS'S Cousin Feenix. That the play comes as a novelty to those who have the advantage (in one way) over their seniors, is proved by the interest it excites, and by the hearty appreciation with which it is received. Miss MABEL TERRY-LEWIS plays charmingly as Bella, and Miss MAY HARVEY is capital as Naomi Tighe. Mr. GILBERT HARE fits himself down to the ground with the part of Krux, and Miss FANNY COLEMAN could not be bettered as Mrs. Sutcliffe. Mr. FRED KERR is excellent as Jack Poyntz. Miss FANNY COLEMAN, Miss MABEL TERRY-LEWIS (anything but a Miss "M. T." LEWIS, as she is full of brains), and Miss MAY HARVEY, take, and divide, the home-made cake in equal portions. Lord ATUR TEMPORIS ACTI says "there's no falling-off in the original HARE." This HARE has lasted out many a long run; has sho wa us all first-rate sport; and even now Old Time's harriers haven't got within measurable distance of him, for he is going as strong as ever. And so, like "Beauty," this play draws us with a single HARE,-or rather, would do so, only there are two HARES, which fact strengthens the traction power. Prosit! WISHING THEM A HAPPY RETURN.-From the Daily News we learn that "Sir BENJAMIN BAKER and Mr. JOHN AIRD have left London to look after the new Nile for Egypt water-works. "Bon voyage!" et "Aux Reservoirs !" First Young Workman. "LOOK 'ERE, BILL, AS FAR AS I CAN SIZE IT UP, IF YOU AND ME BEGIN PUTTIN' BY IMMEDIATE, AND DON'T GET LOCKED OUT, OR LAID UP, OR DIE,', ETIAM IN ARCADIA EGO. I HAVE listened to the prattle To a sylvan wilderness. I have risen with the singing And have heard the bells a-ringing In the churchyard and the dark. I have squeezed her hand and snored me In the old ancestral pew But the idyll always bored me, And I longed for something new. No-let poets love to dally Where the sun with tender ray Gilds the dear old-fashioned alley In the old poetic way. But Arcadia in December Or in May is sorrow's crown, Since in boredom I remember The delights of life in town. PROBABLE CHANGE OF NAME.-A capital mirth-provoking entertainment is just now being given at St. George's Hall by the united forces of the mysterious Masked Minstrels, Miss LOTTIE VENNE and Mr. BRANDON THOMAS in My Milliner's Bill, and Mr. GEORGE GROSSMITH in one of the very best musical sketches he has ever done, which is saying (singing and playing) a good deal. If this Show" is to be permanent (and why not? seeing that it attracts all those who patronise the theatre and those who don't), then the proposal may be made to drop the "Saint "not the "Grossmith and call it simply George's Hall, even though the entertainment is not h'all George's. 46 ¡COVENT GARDEN #FANCY PA PRI ма 92. SOLILOQUY. "I should like that engine. Can't afford it myself. They won't buy it for me at home-too soon after Christmas. Must go in and ask the Girl to put it aside for me till next time I have the Croup or something; then Mother 'll buy it me!" THE DUMAS CRAZE. "LET 'EM ALL COME." Brown (who, with his friends Jones and Robinson, is in town for a week and is "going it"). "Now, MR. COSTUMIER, WE ARE GOING TO THIS 'ERE BALL, AND WE WANT YOU TO MAKE US HUP AS THE THREE MUSKETEERS!" A "SCHOOL" TREAT ONCE more we go to School at the Globe Theatre! Once more we welcome Mr. JOHN HARE, as admirable as ever in his original part of Beau Farintosh, a character that ROBERTSON created out of materials provided by THACKERAY'S Major Pendennis and DICKENS'S Cousin Feenix. That the play comes as a novelty to those who have the advantage (in one way) over their seniors, is proved by the interest it excites, and by the hearty appreciation with which it is received. Miss MABEL TERRY-LEWIS plays charmingly as Bella, and Miss MAY HARVEY is capital as Naomi Tighe. Mr. GILBERT HARE fits himself down to the ground with the part of Krux, and Miss FANNY COLEMAN could not be bettered as Mrs. Sutcliffe. Mr. FRED KERR is excellent as Jack Poyntz. Miss FANNY COLEMAN, Miss MABEL TERRY-LEWIS (anything but a Miss "M. T." LEWIS, as she is full of brains), and Miss MAY HARVEY, take, and divide, the home-made cake in equal portions. Lord ATUR TEMPORIS ACTI says "there's no falling-off in the original HARE." This HARE has lasted out many a long run; has she wa us all first-rate sport; and even now Old Time's harriers haven't got within measurable distance of him, for he is going as strong as ever. And so, like "Beauty," this play draws us with a single HARE,-or rather, would do so, only there are two HARES, which fact strengthens the traction power. Prosit ! WISHING THEM A HAPPY RETURN.-From the Daily News we learn that "Sir BENJAMIN BAKER and Mr. JOHN AIRD have left London for Egypt" to look after the new Nile water-works. "Bon voyage!" et "Aux |