FROM OUR STALL. oppor P Punjaub O Olive T Tara Trill CORRECT SOLUTIONS OF ACROSTIC No. 2, RECEIVED 27TH MARCH.Tooting; Mrs. Owdashus Cuss; Pipekop; F. J. P.; Bull-pup; Betsy H.; Darkey; Lawson; Bow-wow; Ganymede; Sheernasty; Petlein; Lambkin; Snip; Newton Ards; Connu; Warley; Deepthought; Quartette; H. E. V. D.; Red-nosed Elk; K. P... Surrey; Sciatica; Nanny's Pet; Young Bedo; Ginger; Carver and Gilder; Spectre Pig; Ferret; Knurr and Spell; Beef and Baked; Green Mallet; Infirm Mary; E. D. S.; Gobbles; J. E. B.; F. J. G. W.; Owdashus Cuss; Boy and Dolphin; A Cripple; Greenock; Ruby; Bumblepuppy; Jibjobbey; D. G. R.; Mary Port; Knight Templar; J. C.; A Gowk; Gyp; Nosnan Eillini; Brain; Dora; Snooks; Dulcamara; Fal; Chichester for B.; Vancouver; J. W.; Birkenhead. replaced MR. POWRIE since the first performance, is a good Rob Roy McGregor-perhaps a trifle stagey. The Nichol Jarvie of MR. PHELPS HE revival of Rob Roy has is one of his best comic parts; an easy second, in fact, to Sir Pertinax afforded the Drury Lane (which is an easy first). MR. MCINTYRE was finely grotesque as the management another Dougal Creature. In a certain eccentric line of character this actor tunity of distinguishing itself is rapidly making a reputation; and in the forthcoming drama at this by taste and liberality. The house, MR. MCINTYRE is to have a part which will fit him like a piece hardly deserves, in our glove. MISS CROss, the young lady who performs the part of Diana opinion, the pains that Mr. Vernon, sings well and would sing better if she were less nervous. CHATTERTON has taken with it. MISS LE THIERE declaimed sonorously as Helen McGregor; and MRS. Perhaps the feat of trans- AYNSLEY COOK, whose name should certainly be inserted in the bill, forming an excellent novel brought the house down by her singing of the solo part in the Tramp into a tiresome drama was Chorus. Let us, before we have done with Rob Roy, implore the actor never so triumphantly per- who plays Mr. Owen, to make him a little bit more intelligent. The formed as in the case of Rob confidential clerk of a large banking firm could hardly have been the Roy. Some extraordinary at- simpleton he is represented on the Drury Lane stage. traction was evidently found necessary for the support of so the piece on its revival at Drury Lane; therefore, MR. SIMS REEVES was engaged, and MR. POWRIE brought from Edinburgh to strengthen its effect. The former gentleman, from causes that we have not heard explained, has disappointed the management; and the latter has sprained his ancle. MR. W. HARRISON plays and sings the part of Frank Osbaldistone pretty nicely, but he always frightens us by running into falsetto, and not seeming to know his way out again. MR. SWINBURNE, who has Revivals are the order of the day. The Duke's Motto has been revived at the Lyceum, David Garrick at the Haymarket, and It is Never Too Late to Mend at the Princess's. We are to have a few novelties at Easter, including a burlesque from MR. BURNAND at the Olympic, one from MR. W. BROUGH at the Strand, and one from Mr. GILBERT at the Holborn. Received with open arms. Paris Exhibition. In order to show how highly the EMPEROR estimates The Great Eastern is to run between America and France during the the American, it is arranged that the latter shall be conveyed at once from the bosom of his family to the Brest of France. REFLECTIONS AT A PICTURE-AUCTION. Ir may shock those who are given to talking about "the increasing love of art" and the "munificent patronage of art by the MEDICIS of Manchester;" but there can be no doubt that Picture-Auction Rooms are only a species of Share Market, and that paintings are a kind of currency. As for the Manchester MEDICIS, in most cases it is to be feared they buy pictures as furniture. They see galleries of fine works in the houses of the old landed gentry, and they feel it necessary to have something of the same sort too. Pictures are an investment, and the only wonder is that so-called Art journals do not give the state of the market, just as the commercial journals record the rise and fall of shares. The Picture-Auctions would supply the needful statistics; and from them the list might be made out something in this style :"The demand for genuine Old Masters continues active. In Modern Works much business has been done, though, in consequence of the approaching Royal Academy sale, which begins on the 1st May, some large customers are holding back. PICKERSGILLS are a little flat. HARTS have a downward tendency. CRESWICKS are steady. There is an advance in LEADERS, and LANDSEERS go pretty briskly. BARNESES show a tendency to rise. MILLAIS's are lively, and there has been a call for CALDERONS. SANDYSES command good sales, and in some quarters BURNE JONESES are well looked after. It is stated there will be good business done in ARMYTAGES, NICOLSES, and PETTIES next month." Nothing is more common than to meet with "patrons of Art," who are coolly reckoning up the returns they are likely to get for their money. "I say," says old COTTON, the millionaire from Manchester, who has just dropped in at DRYER's studio to see if there's a bargain to be picked up in the way of Art, "I say, DRYER, how's that chap SMALT getting on ?" Oh, pretty well," DRYER thinks; "seems to be always at work. Has been married lately." "How's he getting on with his pictures," COTTON means. "Do they sell well?" "Yes, they sell very well," DRYER is glad to say. "I mean good prices," says COTTON, careful to be particular in his interrogation. Very good," replies DRYER, who thinks it's very kind of old COTTON to take such an interest in a young and struggling artist. "Glad of it," says the Manchester man. "Fellow advised me to buy some things of his. Got 'em cheap-they'll fetch twice what I gave for 'em now. Capital pictures!" To a real lover of Art, a visit to a picture sale is full of interest. First of all there are the pictures to see-pictures he may never have the chance of seeing again; early works by recognised men, fetching good prices which they don't merit. Early works by unrecognised men, fetching about half their real value. Then there are the buyersmen who buy pictures because they like them-men who buy pictures because they want to be supposed to like them-men who buy pictures because other people buy pictures-men who buy pictures as an because they don't care about them-men who don't buy pictures investment. Next are the non-buyers-men who don't buy pictures because they can't afford to buy them-men who don't buy pictures because they can afford not to buy them. The varieties are endless. Some never praise or blame a picture till they have found out the painter's name in the corner. Others always blame-others always praise. Then there are the people who know all the technical terms, and talk you stupid with keeping and chiaroscuro, scumbling and glazing, and a host of more recondite words of obscure meaning. For our part, we consider Picture-Auctions to be little better than slave marts. A man has no business to be always buying and selling pictures, any more than he has to be always changing a wife. He ought not to buy a painting until he is quite sure he really likes it; and once its owner, he ought not to be allowed to part from it unless he can show sufficient cause, such as poverty, for instance, before an Art-Divorce Court. It is a desecration of Art for a man to be perpetually changing the paintings on his walls, as if he were re-papering. The collections of such people should be confiscated, and added to the National Collection. Loaves and Fisheries. "Mr. Spencer Walpole has been appointed Inspector of Fisheries."-Vide Papers. FROM aspects which promotion now presents This clear and definite conclusion's FUN'sThe duty of "Paternal" Governments Consists in finding snug berths for their sons. WHY is a shirt front like a bridge ?-Because it looks best-arched. |