EDITOR'S ADDRESS
ON THE COMPLETION OF THE
FIRST VOLUME.
At the end of a theatrical season it is customary for the manager to step forward, and, in as few words as may be, to say how very much obliged he feels for all past favours, and how very ready he is to incur fresh obligations.
With a degree of candour which few managers would display, we cheerfully confess that we have been fairly inundated with orders during our six months' campaign; but so liberal are we, notwithstanding, that we place many of the very first authors of the day on our free list, and invite them to write for our establishment just as much paper as they think proper.
We have produced a great variety of novelties, some of which we humbly hope may become stock pieces, and all of which we may venture to say have been must successful; and, although we are not subject to the control of a licenser, we have eschewed everything political, personal, or ill-natured, with perhaps as much care as we could possibly have shown, even had we been under the watchful eye of the Lord Chamberlain himself.
We shall open our Second Volume, ladies and gentlemen, on the first day of July, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, when we shall have the pleasure of submitting a great variety of entirely new pieces for your judgment and approval. The company will be numerous, first-rate, and complete. The scenery will continue to be supplied by the creative pencil of Mr. George Cruikshank; the whole of the extensive and beautiful machinery will be, as heretofore, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. Samuel Bentley, of Dorset-street, Fleet-street; and Mr. Richard Bentley, of New Burlington-street, has kindly consented to preside over the Treasury department, where he has already conducted himself with uncommon ability.
The stage management will again be confided, ladies and gentlemen, to the humble individual with the short name, who has now the honour to address you, and who hopes, for very many years to come, to appear before you in the same capacity. Permit him to add in sober seriousness, that it has been the constant and unremitting endeavour of himself and the proprietor to render this undertaking worthy of your patronage. That they have not altogether failed in their attempt, its splendid success sufficiently demonstrates; that they have no intention of relaxing in their efforts, its future Volumes we trust will abundantly testify.
"BOZ."
London,
June, 1837.
CONTENTS OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
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| Page | |
| Songs of the Month — January, by "Father Prout;" | [ 1] |
| February, by Dr. Maginn; | [105] |
| March, by Samuel Lover; | [325] |
| April,by W. H. Ainsworth; | [429] |
| May and June, by J. A. Wade; | [533] |
| Prologue, by Dr. Maginn | [ 2] |
| Opening Chaunt | [ 6] |
| Recollections of the late George Colman, by Theodore Hook | [ 7] |
| The "Monstre" Balloon | [ 17] |
| Handy Andy, by Samuel Lover | [ 20,] [169,] [373] |
| Legend of Manor Hall, by the Author of "Headlong Hall" | [ 29] |
| Terence O'Shaughnessy, by the Author of "Stories of Waterloo" | [ 33] |
| The Sabine Farmer's Serenade, by Father Prout | [ 46] |
| Public Life of Mr. Tulrumble, by Boz | [ 49] |
| The Hot Wells of Clifton, by Father Prout | [ 63] |
| The Marine Ghost, by the Author of "Rattlin the Reefer" | [ 65] |
| Old Age and Youth, by T. Haynes Bayly | [ 79] |
| An Evening of Visits, by the Author of "The Pilot" | [ 80] |
| Who are you?—Metastasio, Fontenelle, and Samuel Lover | [ 88] |
| Metropolitan Men of Science | [ 89] |
| Kyan's Patent—the Nine Muses and the Dry-rot | [ 93] |
| The Original of "Not a Drum was heard," by Father Prout | [ 96] |
| A Gossip with some old English Poets, by C. Ollier | [ 98] |
| The Rising Periodical; Mr. Verdant's Account of the last aërial ascent, by T. Haynes Bayly | [101] |
| An Italian Anecdote, by the Author of "Hajji Baba" | [103] |
| Oliver Twist, or the Parish Boy's Progress, by Boz | [105,] [218,] [326,] [430] |
| Richie Barter | [116] |
| Plunder Creek, by the Author of "Tales of an Antiquary" | [121] |
| The Spectre | [131] |
| Authors and Actors, a dramatic sketch | [132] |
| A Gossip with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, by Hamilton Reynolds | [138] |
| A Lament over the Bannister | [151] |
| Theatrical Advertisement Extraordinary | [152] |
| The Abbess and Duchess, by T. Haynes Bayly | [153] |
| Edward Saville, by C. Whitehead | [155] |
| A Fragment of Romance | [165] |
| Lines on John Bannister, by Sir George Rose | [168] |
| Lines to a Lyric and Artist | [177] |
| Biographical Sketch of Richardson, by W. Jerdan | [178] |
| Paddy Blake's Echo, by J. A. Wade | [186] |
| Recollections of Childhood, by the author of "Headlong Hall" | [187] |
| Epigrams | [190,] [409,] [493,] [508] |
| [540,] [564,] [583,] [590] | |
| Family Stories, by Thomas Ingoldsby: No. I. Spectre of Tappington | [191] |
| No. II. Legend of Hamilton Tighe | [266] |
| No. III. Grey Dolphin | [341] |
| No. IV. The Squire's Story | [529] |
| No. V. The Execution, a Sporting Anecdote | [561] |
| The Wide-awake Club | [208] |
| A Remnant of the Time of Izaak Walton | [230] |
| The "Original" Dragon, by C. J. Davids | [231] |
| A Passage in the Life of Beaumarchais, by George Hogarth | [233] |
| Mars and Venus, by C. F. Le Gros | [247] |
| An Evening Meditation | [250] |
| The Devil and Johnny Dixon, by the Author of "Stories of Waterloo" | [251] |
| A Merry Christmas, by T. Haynes Bayly | [260] |
| Nights at Sea, by the Old Sailor: No. I. The Captain's Cabin | [269] |
| No. II. The White Squall | [474] |
| No. III. The Chase and the Forecastle Yarn | [621] |
| Remains of Hajji Baba, by the Author of "Zohrab" | [280,] [364,] [487] |
| The Portrait Gallery, by the Author of "The Bee Hive" | [286,] [442] |
| The Sorrows of Life | [290] |
| Stray Chapters, by Boz: No. I. The Pantomime of Life | [291] |
| No. II. Particulars concerning a Lion | [515] |
| Memoirs of Samuel Foote | [298] |
| The Two Butlers of Kilkenny | [306] |
| The Little Bit of Tape, by Richard Johns | [313] |
| Hippothanasia, or the last of Tails, a lamentable Tale, by W. Jerdan | [319] |
| The Grand Cham of Tartary, by C. J. Davids | [339] |
| The Dumb Waiter | [340] |
| Friar Laurence and Juliet, by T. Haynes Bayly | [354] |
| Unpublished Letters of Addison | [356] |
| Sonnet to a Fog, by Egerton Webbe | [371] |
| Biography of Aunt Jemima, by F. H. Rankin | [382] |
| Scenes in the Life of a Gambler, by Captain Medwin | [387] |
| Les Poissons d'Avril; a Gastronomical Chaunt, by Father Prout | [397] |
| The Anatomy of Courage, by Prince Puckler Muskau | [398] |
| Song of the Cover | [402] |
| The Cobbler of Dort | [403] |
| Hero and Leander, by T. Chapman | [410] |
| The Admirable Crichton | [416] |
| Memoirs of Sheridan | [419] |
| Summer Night's Reverie, by J. A. Wade | [428] |
| Peter Plumbago's Correspondence | [448] |
| The Blue Wonder | [450] |
| The Youth's Vade Mecum, by C. Whitehead | [461] |
| A Visit to the Madrigal Society | [465] |
| Love and Poverty | [469] |
| Reflections in a Horse-pond | [470] |
| Inscription for a Cemetery | [473] |
| The Useful Young Man, by W. Collier | [485] |
| A London Fog | [492] |
| Shakspeare Papers, by Dr. Maginn: No. I. Sir John Falstaff | [494] |
| No. II. Jaques | [550] |
| Steam Trip to Hamburgh | [509] |
| Legend of Bohis Head | [519] |
| Bob Burns and Beranger; Sam Lover and Ovidius Naso; by "Father Prout" | [525] |
| Periodical Literature of the North American Indians | [534] |
| An Epitaph | [540] |
| Darby the Swift, by J. A. Wade | [541] |
| The Romance of a Day, by "The Bashful Irishman" | [565] |
| The Man with the Tuft, by T. Haynes Bayly | [576] |
| The Minister's Fate; from "Recollections of H. T." | [577] |
| Love in the City, by the Author of "Stories of Waterloo" | [584] |
| Mrs. Jennings | [591] |
| Hints for an Historical Play, by Thomas Ingoldsby | [597] |
| John Pooledoune, the Victim of Improvements, by W. Jerdan | [599] |
| The Legend of Mount Pilate, by G. Dance | [608] |
| Glorvina, the Maid of Meath, by J. Sheridan Knowles | [614] |
| Ode upon the Birth-day of the Princess Victoria, by J. A. Wade | [620] |