ACADEMY NOTES
No 51 (‘Senor Manuel Garcia’).—The Hired Frock-coat.
No 125 (‘Lamia’).—Leap Year. Lady proposing to her partner while sitting out at the Bachelors’ Fancy Dress Ball.
No 182 (‘A Roman Triumph’).—Return of the Aston Villa team to Birmingham after the final tie.
No 194 (‘The Morning of Sedgemoor’).—Back to the Land. City clerks sleeping in barn after haymaking.
No 279 (‘The Invaders’).—March of the Raunds bootmakers.
No 299 (‘Betrayed by the Moon’).—Baltic Fleet shooting torpedo-boat in mistake for trawler.
No 302 (‘W A Bell. Esq’).—‘Yes. I know I look queer. They promised to send back that collar in time, and it hasn’t come!’
No 358 (‘Communal Sitting of the Burghers of Landsberg’).—The Bump Supper. The President of the Rowing Club obliges with a song.
No 425 (‘ Columba in exile welcomes the Wild Birds that cross the sea from Ireland’).—Feeding the ducks in St James’s Park in the Middle Ages.
No 429 (‘Upward to Liberty and Life: Excelsior’).—The Last ’Bus. Conductor gathering in belated fare. ‘Just in time, sir!’
No 432 (‘Alone’).—The Tripper. By the Silver Sea.
No 458 (‘Flora’s Bower’).—The Ladies’ Swimming Race. Chairing the winner.
No 459 (‘Trafalgar’).—Reception of the Spanish and French fleets in 1805. (Old style. We do it differently in 1905.)
No 491 (‘Lady Gorst’).—A Study in Scarlet.
No 625 (‘For he had spoken lightly of a woman’s name’).—The House of Commons on a Fiscal night.
No 681 (‘The Blue Carpet’).—The Spring Cleaning.
No 722 (‘Portrait of a Child’).—Mr Winston Churchill. MP.
No 729 (‘The Widow’).—Your food will cost you more.
No 761 (‘Our Handy Lads’ Nursery, Greenwich, 1905’).—Celebrating the anniversary of Indian Mutiny. Blowing men from the mouths of guns at Greenwich.
No 784 (‘Where hardy Thracians tame the savage horse’).—The start for the Derby. Cicero leading.
No 822 (‘Betrothed’).—The Rake’s Progress.
No 970 (‘A Dream of the Sorrowful Way’).—LCC Improvements. The Strand at midday; road up.
No 994 (‘Cosmos’).—Push-ball. An exciting moment.
No 1316 (‘Mrs Siddons reciting in the Studio of Sir Joshua Reynolds’).—Ju-jitsu. The challenge.
No 1357 (‘The Lark’s Song’).—‘Hark! is that the dressmaker coming?’