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