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      were likely to be the best . Having stated the case to Miss Brown and her sisters , we consulted upon the choice of theatres . Drury Lane , Sadler ' s Wells , the Olympic , and the Adelphi , were decided on , each theatre fry one of the four M ! iss Browns , who consented to go with me in turn . Thus it happens that I give an account , from personal observation , of four Eantomimes , and confess myself indebted to the daily journals for all I ave to tell about the rest . I find a little difliculty in separating the four pantomimes which I have seen , and which are all so wonderfully alike in point of construction . I find , when I try to think of Whittington , or Charles the Second , or Hudibras and Old Dame Durden—the Olympic pantomime of Borneo and Juliet alone retaining its distinctiveness in my remembrance—that all the _characters appear to be dancing a kind of country dance , in which "Old Rowley" and the fair _a _^ lice , Dick , and Nell Gwynne , Sir Hudibras and Mrs . _? ep _^ s , Hugh Fitz wan-en and the wakeful lady ofthe old glee , persist in pairing off * down an endless lane of masks , equally at cross-purposes . And even when I have succeeded in detaching the Drury-Lane pantomime , I find it impossible to describe how the author has mixed up _Hueiibras and Charles the Second and Dame Durden with two rival spirits—Antiquity and Improvement—who contend in one of those bewildering scenes which are always called " . Abodes , " though they are the very last places where anybody but a watchman would dream of passing a single night . But without attempting to unravel the story , let me say that the masks of this pantomime might have been designed by John _Xieech , that the opening scenes are full of unexpected point and fun , and that if the harlequinade , taken on its own merits , rather falls off in these respects , the pantomimists labour heartily , and not in vain , to make up the deficiency . Tom Matthews , the darling of the gallery , is Clown ; a " sprite" surpasses the most sprightly of his brethren , running round his head , as it lies motionless on the floor , and afterwards sitting on it ; the Harlequin is nimble and not without grace ; the Columbine , and an attendant , named Harlequina , not quite up to the mark , but passable ; and an almost forgotten personage , the lover , revives in the slightly altered form of a prospective " gent . " In the course ofthe evening the brothers Siegriest performed their astounding feat "La Perche . " At Sadler ' s Wells , Dick Whittington is the hero of the night , and capitally is he acted by Mr . Fenton , the Harlequin . The story is properly followed out here , the fortunes of the cat in foreign parts making an excellent scene . A clever pantomimist , who calls himself " Herr Deani , " plays the cat remarkably well . As at Drury-Lane ,. the tricks and changes are a falling off , relieved by wonderful displays of tumbling . The Olympic pantomime is got up on a scale suitable to the dimensions of the theatre , and with much taste in some of the scenes . The story of Ptomeo and Juliet is turned into not very boisterous fun , and here the harlequinade has certainly the best of it , the allusions to political events , at home and abroad , being better contrived than at the other houses . Mr . Edwardes , the Clown , is indefatigable . He exhibits some trained dogs , of rare docility and intelligence . Here too is a " sprite , " who possesses the average powers of dislocating his joints , and who Accompanies the Clown in some displays of juggling . The Harlequin is one of the

      most agile fellows I ever saw , with round tapering limbs , scarcel y set h already showing immense strength . The spring upward from the kn as he made his rapid pirouette , was something to remember with _saf _^ faction . 8 At the Adelphi , Nell Gwynne _' s adventures with Charles and Rocheste are turned to good account- With such pantomimists as Honey an * James Rogers for the King and Nell , what but success could follow _^ There is some excellent scenery , such as the Gallery in Whitehall old Covent-Garden , the interior of the Mitre . Tavern , and the gardens \ Whitehall Palace , opening on the Thames . The fun , after the transforma tion , is taken up by Mr . Bologna , as Harleeruin ; Mr . Le Barr , as "Sprite " Mr . W . A . Barnes , as Pantaloon ; and Mr . Flexmore as Clown . Columbin was played the first night , I believe , by Mdlle . Auriol , who now confines her exertions to the early ballet scenes , and Miss _Mitchenson is th Columbine . Political allusions are sparingly ventured , and the changes depend for their success more on ingenious mechanism than on wit . fjn e change from a betting-office to a view of the Australian di ggings was admirably contrived . The Princess ' s pantomime , it seems , is to succeed on the strength of its beautiful scenery . Cherry and Fair Star , the most charming of all the tales in the collection of the Countess d'Anois , is the subject ; but the liberties taken by the author are so great as almost to swamp the original story . A Mr . Huline is spoken of as being an exceedingly clever and original Clown ; and Miss Carlotta Leclercq was Columbine . The Times considers the harlequinade to have absorbed the success of the pantomime . Astley ' s has the story of Fortunio , with his ( or her ) seven gifted followers , and horse Comrade . Processions are' talked of , enlisting the full strength of Mr . Batty ' s company of man and horse , and there seems to he every chance of the pantomime proving a hit . The Surrey piece , like the Princess ' s , depends for success on its spectacle . It is called Harlequin and the World of Flowers ; or _, the Fairy of the Rose and the Sprite of the Silver Star . And certainly the title promises little pantomimic merit . But the magnificent scenery carries it off . At the Strand , Miss Rebecca Isaacs has opened with the company of " Living Marionettes , " who perform a pantomime called Harlequin Gulliver ; or , the Clown in Lilliput . The great attraction here , however , will be the opera , which is w ell supported . The season is only to last a month . Pantomime has kept alive the popular spirit of free and open criticism , but I fear to little or no good purpose . The cries , principally of dissatisfaction , which on four evenings this week I have heard from a gallery audience , never betokened judgment , or even instinctive appreciation of good effect . One of the most beautiful moonlight scenes I ever saw on the stage , though I regret hot to remember at which house , was fiercely assailed with shouts of " Shame , shame ! Why don't you ' fire the blue'P " So , positively the only chance of natural shadow which the vile system of stage-lighting allows us , was to be destroyed by a ghastly glare for the morbid delight of those lunatics !

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      The Pride of Bikth . —A merchant of enormous wealth , who had recently been raised to the peerage was staying at one of our country houses . His daugh ter , my uncle , and an Italian Abbe , were the only guest _, besides . The merchant was a tall , portly , loud-voieed purple-faced man , who bore his new honours with i curious mixture of assumed pomposity and _natural good-humour . The Abbe was dwarfish and deformed _, lean , sallow , sharp-featured , with bright bird-like eyes and a low , soft voice . He was a political refugee , dependent for the breael he _e-at , on the money he rcceivcel for teaching languages . He might have been a crossing-sweeper , a beggar from the streets ; and still my father woulel have treated him as the principal guest in the house , for this simple , all-suflicient reason—he was a direct _descerfdant of one of the oldest of those famous Itonian families whose names are part of the history of the Civil Wars in Italy . On the first day , the party _assembled for dinner comprised the merchant ' s elaughter , my mother , an olel lady who hael once been ber governess , anel hael always lived with her since her marriage , the new Lord , the Abbe ' :, my father anel my uncle . When dinner was announced , the peer advanced in newblown dignity , to oiler bis arm as a matter of course ; te _> my mother . My father ' s pale face ; Hushed crimson in a moment . He touched the magniiicent merchant-lord on the arm , and pointed significantly , with a low _beiw , towards the elecrepid eilel laely whei hael once been my mother's governess . Then , walking to the either end ofthe room , whero the penniless Abbe" was looking over a book in a corner , he gravely and _courteously led the ; little , deformed , limping language-master , clad in a long , threadbare , black coat , up to my mother ( whose shoulder the ; Abbe _s s head hardly reached ) , beld tbe deior open for them to pass out _iirst , with his own band ; politely invited the new nobleman , who stood hidf-pandyzed between confusion and astonishment , to follow with the tottering eilel laely em his arm ; and then returned to le _; ad tho pei : r ' s elaughter deiwn to dinner himsi'lf . lie only _resumed bis wonted expression and manner , when he buel seen the little Abbe' -the squalid , half-starved representative eif mighty barons of the olden time - Beated at the ; _highest pluco of the table by my _motheu ' _s side .--Co 1 , 1 , 1 nh ' b _Itttsil . Ai'TKic . riiiii _Wkijiunu . —Thc fees were paid ; wc

      wrote our names in the books and on the certificate ; the clergyman quietly wished me happiness ; the clerk solemnly imitated him ; the pew-opener smiled and courtseyed ; Mr . Sherwin made congratulatory speeches , kissed his daughter , shook hands with me , frowned a private rebuke at his wife for shedding tears , and , finally , led the way witli Margaret out of the vestry . The rain was still falling , as they got into the carriage —the fog was still thickening , as I stood alone under the portico ofthe church , and tried to realize to myself that I was married . —Coi / lins _' s Basil . A GrAJ . i . _or IN the Rain . —And what a ride it was , when I fairly got out of Londeni ; and the afternoon brightening of the _feiggy atmosphere showed the smooth , empty hig h-road before me ! The dashing through the rain that still fell ; tho feel of the long , powerful , regular stride of the horse under me ; the thrill of that glorious , muscular sympathy which establishes itself be ; tween tho man and tbo steed ; the whirling past carts and waggons , saluted by the frantic barking of deigs insiele ; them ; tbe flying by _roaelsiele _ale ; -heiuses , with the cheering of boys anel half-drunken men sounding ibr an instant behind ine , then lust in the distancethis was indeed lo (> e ; e ; upy , to hurry on , to annihilate ; the tardy hours of solitude on my strange we _; dding-day , exactly as my heart desired !—Coi-i _. ins's Pasil .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1853, page 22, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011853/page/22/