Riding-Hood"--"The Sleeping Beauty in the
Wood"--Unlucky subjects--"Ali Baba and the Forty
Thieves"--"The Fair One with Golden Locks"--The
source of "Sindbad the Sailor" and "Robinson Crusoe"


CHAPTER XX.

Pantomime in America


CHAPTER XXI.

Pantomimes made more attractive--The Restrictive Policy
of the Patent Houses--"Mother Goose" and "George
Barnwell" at Covent Garden--Lively Audiences--"Jane
Shore"--"Harlequin Pat and Harlequin Bat"--"The
first speaking opening"--Extravagence in Extravaganzas--The
doom of the old form of Pantomime--Its
revival in a new form--A piece of pure Pantomime--Present
day Mimetic Art--"_L'Enfant Prodigue_"--A
retrospect--The old with the new, and conclusion




CHAPTER I.

Origin of Pantomime.