Mr. GAYLER was made to write a play for him, and EMMET, the Bowery Minstrel, straightway became Mr. JOSEPH K. EMMET, the renowned impersonator of "FRITZ."

I don't intend to ruin the establishment by giving the public the whole play for the ridiculous sum which is charged for this copy of PUNCHINELLO.

For a whole week together I may read old plays until their jigging style infects my own.

I saw a play once in which the most blood-thirsty and brutal ruffian that ever existed was melted to tears at the mention of his mother's name, and childhood's happy hours, and everybody knows that what happens on the stage happens just the same in real life.

Shakespeare had a theatre with the ground as its floor and the sky as its ceiling; but New York, which has fifty theatres and annually spends $100,000,000 in the box offices of its varied amusement resorts, has rarely in two centuries produced a play that has lived.

and she lifted the box that her father might watch the tiny creature's play.

Then he won't think you have asked him in the hope of hearing him play, and perhaps we can persuade him."

The boys finished their play, and went into the house, and I saw lights twinkling in the windows.

I'll buy any theatre in New York where you try to present your namby-pamby play.

'Sir, he hoped it would vex somebody.' 'Dr. Goldsmith, upon occasion of Mrs. Lennox's bringing out a play, said to Dr. Johnson at the CLUB, that a person had advised him to go and hiss it, because she had attacked Shakspeare in her book called Shakspeare Illustrated.

Gerard Langbaine tells us that Shirley left at his death some plays in manuscript: I have little doubt, or rather no doubt at all, that Captain Underwit is one of them.

Her eyes were very large and some critics said that she was in the habit of making play with those eyes, but the fact is that nature had made them so to shine and to look, that they could no more help so looking and shining than one star can help being brighter than another.

"I should think you would feel all the time as if you were acting a play yourself, Patty," said Elsie Morris, taking her seat at the prettily laid table.

Thank you for liking my play!

This will I do; thus shall I bear with thee; And, more to vex thee with a deeper spite, I will with threats of blood begin thy play: Favouring thee with envy and with hate.

Who took your play?

I believe he read my thoughts, for it seemed to me that for an instant genuine amusement was written in his glance, but there were few genuine emotions he allowed free play.

"Life's a poor player,"then play out the play.

Some do not enjoy rough play, and others cannot endure to be quiet.

The ball had been batted so hard by Meyers to Wood that it crippled the pitcher's hand and compelled him to cease playing.

I fancy that is why most of us go on, because we find the play entertaining in spite of ourselves.

The Doctor wrote his opinion that it was most important for Arthur's success in after life that he should know a Greek play thoroughly, but Pen adroitly managed to hint to his mother what a dangerous place Grey Friars was, and what sad wild fellows some of the chaps there were, and the timid soul, taking alarm at once, acceded to his desire to stay at home.

GRIFFEN, ELIZABETH F. Foundation to band playing.

In those days even a pun might be a serious thing: witness the play in the last stanza on the words son and sunnot a mere pun, for the Son of the Father is the Sun of Righteousness: he is Life and Light.

There was less tendency on the part of the umpires to render their decisions without being in a position to follow the play correctly.