The sources from which the illustrations have been drawn are much the same as those that have provided the other volumes of The Fun Library. In the present volume there is a particularly fine selection from the work of Mr. Haselden, reprinted here by special permission of the editor of The Daily Mirror, and it also contains an important series by the late Phil May, reprinted by arrangement with The Sketch, while we are indebted to Mr. Gilbert Dalziel for permission to use a considerable number of excellent items from Fun and Judy, with which journals he was so long and honourably associated. To Mr. Punch’s collections of the “’sixties” we owe the numerous examples of Leech, Keene and Du Maurier at their best.

In brief, it may be claimed for “Stage, Study and Studio” that the collection is fully up to the high standard we have sought to maintain in all the volumes of The Fun Library.

J. A. H.

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]