. Punch . oach to a Protestant opera with which wehave as yet, in England, been acquainted. Even these, however, aremore Catholic than Protestant; and so we are not much helped outof our perplexity. Norma, to our mind, is more Druidical thanProtestant; and what are the peculiar tenets of Giselle we leave toMe. Spubgeon, or any other enemy of dancing, to suggest. NUISANCES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. 1. The necessity of j leaving your stick or umbrella, and, on a wetday, owing to the insufficient number of attendants, having to wait aquarter of an hour, at your entrance and departure, befo
. Punch . oach to a Protestant opera with which wehave as yet, in England, been acquainted. Even these, however, aremore Catholic than Protestant; and so we are not much helped outof our perplexity. Norma, to our mind, is more Druidical thanProtestant; and what are the peculiar tenets of Giselle we leave toMe. Spubgeon, or any other enemy of dancing, to suggest. NUISANCES AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. 1. The necessity of j leaving your stick or umbrella, and, on a wetday, owing to the insufficient number of attendants, having to wait aquarter of an hour, at your entrance and departure, before you candeliver your property up, or have it returned to you. Note—Themonstrous inconvenience inflicted on the majority of the public byabout one fool in a million, who would poke a cane through a picture. 2. The habit of stupid people, especially ladies in the midst of im-mense muslin, getting close to the pictures, so that those who want toexamine them at a proper distance, can never see them at Stipples is fortunate enough to get his Picture in the Academy this year : his delight may be imagined at finding it placed on the Crinoline line, below the sensation-picture of the year. 3. The still more disgusting habit, of which silly youths are pecu-liarly guilty, of not only getting directly in front of the finest works ofart, but also turning their [backs on them, and their faces to theirfriends, who likewise stand before you, and with whom they holdfoolish conversations for some twenty minutes, during which thepaintings behind them are covered by opaque blockheads. Mat 25, 1861.] PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI. 217
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