[Illustration:  No. 173.  “A First Rehearsal.”  “The celebrated actor, Mr. Gommersal of Astley’s Amphitheatre, made up and attired as the Great Napoleon, entered the Manager’s room, where the author of the Equestrian Spectacular Melodrama of ‘The Battle of Waterloo’ was seated finishing the last Act.  ‘What do you think of this?’ asked Mr. G., triumphantly.  ‘Not a bit like it,’ returned the author, sharply.  ‘What!’ exclaimed the astonished veteran, ’do you mean to say my make-up for Napoleon isn’t good!  Well I’m ——­’ ’You will be, if you appear like that,’ interrupted the author decisively,”—­Vide Widdicomb’s History of the Battle of Waterloo at Astley’s.  W.Q.  Orchardson, R.A.]

[Illustration:  No. 344.  The Reeds’ Entertainment.  Gallery of Illustration.  Interval during change of costume.  “Behold these graceful Reeds!” Arthur Hacker.]

No. 130. A (Sir Donald) Currie, admirably done in P. and O. (Paint and Oil) by W.W.  OULESS, R.A.

[Illustration:  No. 204.  “Three Little Maids from School.”  A wealth of colour.  The subject is this:—­After an ample school-feast, the girls sat drowsily under an orange-tree, when they were suddenly startled by the appearance of a snake.  “Don’t be frightened, Betsy Jane,” cried Anna Maria, the eldest; “’ee won’t ’urt yer, ’ee only comes from the Lowther Harkade.”  Sir Fred. Leighton, Bart., P.R.A.]

No. 211. “Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind.”—­As You Like It. But we don’t like it—­we mean, the wind, of course.  Oh, so desolate and dreary!  We suppose that in order to keep himself warm, Sir JOHN must have been thoroughly wrapped up in his work when he painted this.  Sir J.E.  MILLAIS, Bart., R.A.

No. 228. “The Great Auk’s Egg.” “Auk-ward moment:  is it genuine or not?  He bought it at an Auk-tion; it had probably been auk’d about before, genuine or not There’ll be a great tauk (!) about it,” says H.S.  MARKS, R.A.

  No. 238.  “With a little pig here and a little cow here,
  Here a sheep and there a sheep and everywhere a sheep.”

Old Song, illustrated by SIDNEY COOPER, R.A.

[Illustration:  No. 458.  “Peas and War.”  Club Committee ordering dinner.  See corner figure (L.H. of picture) with Cookery Book.  The Steward says, “We can’t have peas.”  Mr. J.S.  B-lf-r remonstrates strongly, “What! not have peas?  Nonsense!” That’s how the row began, and they “gave him beans.”  “A limner then his visage caught,” and managed the awkward subject so as to please everybody; which the limner’s name is Hubert Herkomer, R.A.]

No. 250. “Ticklish Times; or, the First Small and Early in the Ear.” “She sat, half-mesmerised, thinking to herself, ’Shall I have many dances this season?’ ‘You’ve got a ball in hand,’ whispered small and early Eros Minimus.  ‘Ah,’ she returned, dreamily, ’a bawl in the hand is indeed worth a whisper in the ear.’” From the Greek of Akephalos. W. ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU.