THE END.

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“QUITE NEW AND ORIGINAL.”

[Illustration:  Infants in Arms.]

The fencing Lecture, entitled, The Story of Swordsmanship, seems to have been so great a success, last Wednesday, at the Lyceum, as to have aroused the ire of some Music-hall Managers, who earnestly contend that the Stage of the Theatre, that is, of the Drama pur et simple, very pure et very simple, should not be used or misused for the purpose of giving an entertainment, which, though given without scenes, was yet “illustrated with cuts.”

It is highly probable that this offensive and defensive subject will be followed by other lectures more, perhaps, in keeping with theatrical tradition.  We will not give our authority for this statement, but may intimate that that eminent professor of the P.R. and P.M.N.A.S.D., known within certain circles as The Slogger, will, at no very distant date, give at one of our most popular theatres a lecture, the first of a series, on Pugilism and the Drama.

Tickets, of course, to be obtained at the Box-office.  The subject of the first Lecture will be Box and Fighting Cocks.

Among other things the eloquent professor will draw the attention of his audience to what a change in the history of the Stage, nay, perhaps, in the history of the world, would have occurred if to Box’s inquiry as to his pugilistic capacity, Cox had replied, “I can!” and had there and then thrown himself, like Mr. Pickwick “into a paralytic attitude,” and exclaimed, “Come on!” an invitation which the challenger would have been bound in honour to accept.  The Lecturer will practically show how “to make a hit,” and give an example from the life of the “early closing movement.”  The Lecture will be interspersed with songs, such as “Black Eyes and Blue Eyes,” “Hand and Glove,” “Ring!  Ring!” “The Hymn to Floorer” a part-song, by four choristers, and “Me-fist-O’s song” from Faust.  Perhaps the next Lecture on the some subject will be given at The Umpire Theatre.

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AN OLD CRY REVIVED (unpalatable to the French Painters and Patriots).—­“A Berlin! a Berlin!”

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SHAKSPEARE AND THE UNMUSICAL GLASSES.

Mr. PINERO, in his letter to the D.T., complained that, should the Music Halls obtain their wicked way, through the incompetence of the County Council to deal with the matter—­(but is not DRURIOLANUS a Counti-Counciliarius, and ready to see justice done to the poor player, author, (and manager alike?  Sure-ly!)—­then a play at a Hall of Music (they used to be “Caves of Harmony” in THACKERAY’s time, and the principal Hall of Music was SAM HALL) will be heard between “a puff at a cigar and a sip from a glass.”  Well, but what piece can get on without a puff or