INDEX TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
TO THE ILLUSTRATIONS
| PANTOMIMICS | |
| PAGE | |
| Rehearsing the “fish” ballet | [1] |
| Billy and Bunny | [3] |
| Winning the gloves | [4] |
| Modern languages taught in one lesson | [5] |
| Theatre Royal—Nursery | [6] |
| An ex(bus)horse-tive argument | [7] |
| A pict-ure | [8] |
| A swallow out of season | [9] |
| “With a neck like that” | [11] |
| Experienced young fellow | [12] |
| Two transformation scenes | [13] |
| Not the correct way of pudding it | [15] |
| Humanizing influence of pantomime | [16] |
| ON THE STAGE AND OFF | |
| Prompt but not prepared | [17] |
| A wordless story | [18] |
| English as she is spoke | [23] |
| Cassius | [24] |
| Acting under difficulties | [25] |
| Ever-popular criminal on the stage | [27] |
| On the stage—and off | [28]-[9] |
| When actors are Members of Parliament | [31] |
| When actors become modest | [32] |
| “Still running” | [33] |
| The part of Hamlet | [34] |
| Good and bad business at the theatre | [35] |
| “A little padding” | [37] |
| The actor’s one topic—himself | [39] |
| A side-box talk | [40] |
| The bald baron | [41]-[4] |
| FUN AT THE PLAY | |
| “Are you sitting on my hat?” | [45] |
| Delights of theatre-going | [46]-[7] |
| “Not so long as four solos” | [49] |
| A little ruse | [50] |
| A morning concert | [52] |
| Pit, boxes, and gallery | [54] |
| Playgoers and their eccentricities | [56] |
| Credit where credit is due | [57] |
| A “civil” retort | [58] |
| AMONG THE AMATEURS | |
| At a fancy ball | [61] |
| Private theatricals | [63] |
| Private theatricals at the Titwillows’ | [65] |
| THE POETS’ CORNER | |
| Portrait of a gentleman | [67] |
| The poets illustrated | [69] |
| No! Don’t | [70] |
| The poets illustrated | [74] |
| “Mariar Martin, or the Red Baarn” | [75] |
| An illustrated edition of the poets | [77]-[9] |
| Poets and their patrons | [80] |
| MAINLY ABOUT AUTHORS | |
| Would-be novelist | [85] |
| Lady Audley’s secret | [86] |
| Perfect sincerity, or, thinkings aloud | [88] |
| The ancient Britons | [88] |
| A rural study | [89] |
| “The great cypher work” | [90] |
| Author’s miseries | [92]-[7] |
| Harris-ing reflections | [99] |
| “Hemily Fitz-Hosborn” | [100] |
| THE EDITOR IN HIS DEN | |
| The editor at home | [101] |
| Romance of advertising | [103] |
| “Pirates surprised at sunset” | [104] |
| Fancy portrait—Oliver Twist | [105] |
| A fact! | [106] |
| A new reading | [111] |
| STUDIES FROM THE STUDY | |
| “He’s sent the books” | [113] |
| Returned—with thanks | [114] |
| A queer cut | [115] |
| The pursuit of letters | [116] |
| Grand march of Intellect | [116] |
| Catalogue of the letter P. | [117] |
| The age of intellect | [118] |
| Subject for a picture | [119] |
| An awful apparition | [121] |
| The musical neighbour | [123] |
| British Museum catalogue | [124] |
| Analytical papers | [125] |
| “Couldn’t read Miss Frump’s new book” | [127] |
| The philosopher’s revenge | [129]-[136] |
| FUN IN THE STUDIO | |
| “Present company always excepted!” | [137] |
| “Very tiring” | [138] |
| Wholesale | [139] |
| “Qualifications” | [140] |
| Behind the scenes | [141] |
| “Asking for it” | [142] |
| The commercial side | [143] |
| Gaddy’s academy picture on view | [144] |
| “Flattering” | [145] |
| Profession and practice | [146] |
| A rapid genius | [147] |
| “English langweege” | [148] |
| “Only their mothers” | [149] |
| For exhibition? | [150] |
| Pretty innocent | [151] |
| “Aye, there’s the rub!” | [152] |
| “Work hard and get your own living” | [153] |
| March of science | [154] |
| The real | [154] |
| Pleasures of the studio | [155] |
| A happy medium | [155] |
| The ideal | [156] |
| Two principal figures | [157] |
| Answers for our artist | [158] |
| The mother of invention | [159] |
| Kindly meant | [160] |
| “Where’s your beard?” | [160] |
| How some old painters must have worked | [161] |
| Studio persuasion | [162] |
| “A portrait painter” | [163] |
| Model husband and a lay figure | [164] |
| Marvellous! | [165] |
| A visit to the studio | [166] |
| Scene in a studio | [167] |
| Ballet of action | [168] |
| Turps v. Turpitude | [169] |
| One use for “Dundrearys” | [169] |
| Accommodating! | [170] |
| “Lucky fellow!!” | [171] |
| “Noblesse oblige!” | [172] |
| Our art-school conversazione | [173] |
| “Only one spur a-piece” | [174] |
| “Sharp’s the word” | [175] |
| The sympathies of art | [176] |
| Under a great master | [176] |
| “Sent it to the wash!” | [177] |
| “Ugly and as ridiculous as possible” | [178] |
| Perfect sincerity; or, thinkings aloud | [179] |
| Easily satisfied | [180] |
| Compliments of the season | [181] |
| “Skyed” | [182] |
| ROUND THE GALLERIES | |
| Caution | [183] |
| Painters and gazers | [185] |
| An artist’s dream | [186] |
| “Athletic exercises” | [187] |
| Let them exhibit their pictures outside | [188] |
| Pleasures of the Royal Academy | [189] |
| Art in the National Gallery | [190] |
| Outside the Royal Academy | [191] |
| Charming fashion of long skirts | [192] |
| “Unto this last” | [193] |
| “Very like—very like” | [194] |
| The umbrella question | [195] |
| Pictures of the English, painted by the French | [196] |
| A-musing | [197] |
| Perhaps | [198] |
| Reception of pictures at Royal Academy | [199] |
| Our historical portrait gallery | [200]-[1] |
| A study | [202] |
| Overheard at the Academy | [203] |
| Suggestions for the Royal Academy catalogue | [206] |
| THE ARTIST OUT OF DOORS | |
| “It’s an ill wind,” etc. | [207] |
| The old cottage | [208] |
| The elysium of artists | [209] |
| “A pretty prospect” | [210] |
| Possibilities of a penny pistol and a box of caps | [211] |
| Technical and practical | [212] |
| “Impertinent curiosity of the vulgar” | [213] |
| “That pre-Raphaelite fellow” | [214] |
| Where ignorance is bliss | [215] |
| Design for an album | [216] |
| Studying skies | [217] |
| Culture for the million | [218] |
| An artist scamp in the Highlands | [220] |
| Ingenious protection against midges | [221] |
| Sketching from Nature | [222] |
| “Very nearly a pound” | [223] |
| Art at a cattle show | [224] |
| What an artist has to put up with | [224] |
| Enjoying himself in the Highlands | [225] |
| “Compliments of the (sketching) season” | [226] |
| “Fine Art” | [227] |
| “Brother Brush” | [228] |
| Making the best of it | [229] |
| One reason, certainly! | [230] |
| Æsthetics | [230] |
| A broad hint | [231] |
| Pleasant for Jack Daubs | [231] |
| Flattering! | [232] |
| Our adventurous artist | [233] |
| Art and science | [234] |
| An eye for colour | [235] |
| Ignorance was bliss | [235] |
| Our artist | [236] |
| SCULPTURE AND COMEDY | |
| “Well broke!” | [237] |
| Venus of Milo | [238] |
| “Ingenuas didicisse” | [241] |
| At the great exhibition of 1861 | [243] |
| Popular history | [244] |
| Capital punishment | [245] |
| A flagrant attempt | [246] |
| FUNNY FILMS: HUMOURS OF PHOTOGRAPHY | |
| “Many a true word spoke in jest” | [247] |
| Bobby’s camera | [249] |
| Interesting group posed for a photograph | [250]-[251] |
| Happy thought | [252]-[253] |
| Pleasant for Simpkins | [254] |
| Unanswerable | [255] |
| Can the camera lie? | [256] |
| The artistic(!) studio | [257] |
| “What for?” | [259] |
| Portrait of a distinguished photographer | [260] |
| A photographic picture | [261] |
| Encouragement of art | [263] |
| “A florid complexion” | [265] |
| Artful! | [266] |
| Subject for a picture | [267] |
| Photographic beauties | [268] |
| WANDERING MINSTRELS | |
| Christmas waits | [269] |
| Division of labour | [271] |
| Culture for the million | [273] |
| Nothing like advertising yourself | [275] |
| Sketch from a study window | [277] |
| THROUGH THE OPERA GLASSES | |
| The opera | [281] |
| What indeed? | [284] |
| “French without a master” | [285] |
| We don’t sing enough | [287] |
| The high note | [288] |
| The low note | [289] |
| “Only twenty-two” | [291] |
| Culture for the million | [292] |
| Gentle rebuke | [293] |