FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS. Dramatic Sketches.-John McCullough in Virginius- Edwin Booth as Richelieu "-Joseph Jefferson as 'Rip Van Winkle "-Lawrence Barrett as -Mary Anderson as "Galatea"-Tom Keene as Variety, Minstrel, and Spectacular Scenes.-The Society Singer-A Minstrel "First Part "-Double Song and Dance An Eccentric Comedian - Triumph of Light" scene in Excelsior—“ The Plain Frank Mayo in Davy Crockett-John T. Raymond as" Col. Sellers "-Lotta as "Musette "-W. J. Flor- ence as "Hon. Bardwell Slote "- Mr. and Mrs. McKee Rankin in The Danites-J. E. Owens as Solon Shingle "-Maggie Mitchell as "Fanchon.". 268 Dramatic Sketches.-Joseph Murphy in The Kerry Gow ...... Group of Distinguished Actors.-J. B. Booth-John Drew Group of Operatic Singers.-Giuseppe Del Puente-Etelka Gerster-Adelina Patti-Emma Albani-Christine Nilsson-Italo Campanini-Minnie Hauk-Annie Louise Cary-Antonio Galassi..... Group of Distinguished Actors.-John Howson-Alice Lingard Richard Mansfield-John Gilbert — Ada Rehan-Nat Godwin-Rose Wood-Charles Fisher Group of Distinguished Actors.-James Lewis-Emily Rigl-Sara Jewett-Mlle. Rhea-Frank C. Bangs- Circus Scenes.-Through the Hoops-The Bare-back Rider-On the Trapeze-A Hippodrome Circus— "The Sistine Madonna "-Raphael... Group of Italian Painters.-Giovanni Cimabue-Niccolo Pisano-Duccio di Boninsegna-Filippino Lippi-- Andrea Tafi-Simone Memmi- Andrea Orcarna- Pietro Laurati di Lorenzetti-Gaddo Gaddi-Lorenzo Ghiberti-Pietro Cavallini-Antonio Veneziano..... 336 Group of Italian Painters. -Angelico-Masaccio-Taddeo Gaddi-Andrea Verrocchio-Luca Signorelli-Filip- po Lippi-Sandro Botticelli-Garofalo-Del Ghirlan- Group of Dutch Painters.-Adriaen Van Ostade-Jacob "The Neapolitan Boy"-Gustav Richter.. "The Ecstasy of St. Francis "-Murillo. Group of Some Living French Painters.-J. J. Henner- J. L. E. Meissonier-P. J. Baudry-J. L. Gérôme- J. A. Breton-A. Cabanel-L. J. F. Bonnat—W. A. DRAMA, says Sir Walter Scott, is a poem or fictitious composition in dialogue, in which the action is not related, but represented. A disposition to this fascinating amusement, considered in its rudest state, seems to be inherent in human nature. It is the earliest sport of children to take upon themselves some fictitious character, and sustain it to the best of their skill by such appropriate gestures and language as their youthful fancies suggest, and such dress and decorations as circumstances place within their reach. The infancy of nations is as prone to this pastime as that of individuals. When the horde emerges out of a nearly brutal state so far as to have holidays, public sports and general rejoicings, the pageant of their imaginary deities, or of their fabulous ancestors, is usually introduced as the most pleasing and interesting part of the show. But however general the predisposition to the assumption of fictitious character may be, there is an immeasurable distance between the rude games in which it first displays itself and that polished amusement which is numbered among the fine arts, which poetry, music, and painting have vied to adorn, to whose service genius has devoted her most sublime efforts, while philosophy has stooped from her loftier task to regulate the progress of the action, and give probability to the representation and personification of the scene. THE DRAMA OF ANCIENT GREECE. The history of Greece-of that wonderful country whose days of glory have left such a neverdying blaze of radiance behind them-the history of Greece affords us the means of correctly tracing the polished and regulated Drama, the subject of severe rule, and the vehicle for expressing the noblest poetry, from amusements as rude in their outline as the mimic sports of children or of savages. The history of the Grecian stage is that of the dramatic art in general. They transferred the Drama, with their other literature, to the victorious Romans, with |