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Title: The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893
An Illustrated Monthly

Author: Various

Release Date: April 17, 2008 [EBook #25083]

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THE IDLER MAGAZINE.
AN ILLUSTRATED MONTHLY.

March 1893.

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CONTENTS.

THE LYCEUM REHEARSALS.
BY G. B. BURGIN.

A BLESSING DISGUISED.
BY F. W. ROBINSON.

"LIONS IN THEIR DENS."
III.--GEORGE NEWNES AT PUTNEY.
BY RAYMOND BLATHWAYT.

NOVEL NOTES.
BY JEROME K. JEROME.

ON PILGRIMS AND THE PILGRIM SPIRIT.
BY A. ADAMS MARTIN.

A COLLEGE IDYL.
BY S. GORDON.

MY FIRST BOOK.
BY F. W. ROBINSON.

TOLD BY THE COLONEL.
XI.
HOSKINS'S PETS.
BY W. L. ALDEN.

EXPERIENCES OF A 'VARSITY OAR.
BY AN "OLD BLUE."
(F. C. DRAKE.)

THE IDLERS CLUB.
IS CHILDHOOD THE HAPPIEST OR THE
MOST MISERABLE PERIOD OF ONE'S EXISTENCE?

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[Illustration: MR. HENRY IRVING WATCHING A REHEARSAL]

_The Lyceum Rehearsals._

BY G. B. BURGIN.

ILLUSTRATIONS BY J. BERNARD PARTRIDGE.

(_Photographs by Messrs. Barraud._)

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[Illustration: TENNYSON.]

One day a paragraph appears in the papers that a new piece will shortly
be produced at such and such a theatre. Paterfamilias lays down the
paper and placidly observes that it may be worth while getting seats.
Then he goes down to the theatre, books seats, and troubles himself no
more about the matter until the first night of the play in question. The
world behind the curtain is one with which he is totally unfamiliar. He
knows naught of its struggles, its hopes and fears, its arduous work,
its magnificent prize