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DRURY LANE
VOL. I.
LONDON: PRINTED BY
SPOTTISWOODE AND CO., NEW-STREET SQUARE
AND PARLIAMENT STREET
IN AND ABOUT
DRURY LANE
AND OTHER PAPERS
REPRINTED FROM THE PAGES OF THE ‘TEMPLE BAR’ MAGAZINE
BY
DR DORAN
AUTHOR OF ‘TABLE TRAITS AND SOMETHING ON THEM’ ‘JACOBITE LONDON’
‘QUEENS OF ENGLAND OF THE HOUSE OF HANOVER’
IN TWO VOLUMES
VOL. I.
LONDON
RICHARD BENTLEY & SON, NEW BURLINGTON STREET
Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty the Queen
1881
All rights reserved
PREFATORY REMARKS.
The republication of papers which have originally appeared in aMagazine frequently requires justification.
In the present instance this justification, it is thought, may be foundin the special knowledge which Dr. Doran had of all matterspertaining to the stage; in his intimacy with the literature whichtreats of manners and customs, English and foreign; and in his memory,which retained and retailed a great amount of anecdote, told with asprightly wit.
These volumes, reprinted with one or two exceptions from the pages ofthe ‘Temple Bar’ Magazine, will, it is believed, be found to containmany good stories, and much information unostentatiously conveyed. Itis hoped, therefore, that the public will endorse the opinion of thewriter of this Preface, and consider that the plea of justification hasbeen made out.
G. B.
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
| PAGE | |
| In and about Drury Lane | 1 |
| About Master Betty | 20 |
| Charles Young and his Times | 54 |
| William Charles Macready | 82 |
| Private Theatricals | 108 |
| The Smell of the Lamps | 136 |
| A Line of French Actresses | 159 |
| Some Eccentricities of the French Stage | 189 |
| Northumberland House and the Percys |