I shall go crazy. Ye who sigh for place, Behold and profit by my piteous case. As Lord High Chamberlain, I slumber never; As Lord High Steward, in a stew I'm ever! As Lord High Constable, I watch all day; As Lord High Treasurer, I've the deuce to pay; As Great Grand Cupbearer, I'm handled queerly; As Great Grand Carver, I'm cut up severely. In other States the honours are divided, But here they're one and all to me confided; They've buckled Fortune on my back--until I really feel particularly ill! Young man, avoid the cares from State that spring, And don't you be a Great Grand anything. He then sings, to the tune of "Where the bee sucks":-- Who would be a Great Grand Lord High, All the blame on him must lie; Everywhere for him they cry, Up and downstairs he must fly-- After all folks, verily! Verily, verily! Few would live now Under the honours beneath which I bow. The programme of the "The Sleeping Beauty" bore the following notice:-- In strict accordance with the Modern School of Melodramatic Composition, Eighteen years are to be supposed to have elapsed between the First and Second Parts; One Hundred years between the Second and Third Parts; and considerably more than One Hundred after the piece is over. Planché went again to Perrault--directly or indirectly-- for his "Blue Beard" (1839) and his "Discreet Princess" (1855). The last named (from "L'Adroite Princesse") was notable as including in its cast Robson as Prince Richcraft, and Emery as Gander the Stupendous. In "Blue Beard" Bland played the Baron Abomelique (the hero), Mme. Vestris the heroine (Fleurette), and John Brougham, the actor-dramatist, an Irish character--the O'Shac O'Back. How often has this fascinating subject been dealt with since! Dozens of pantomimes have had it for a basis; the burlesques founded on it are not quite so numerous. The best known are those by H. J. Byron (1860) and Mr. Burnand (1883); there are also two others by H. T. Arden and Frank Green.