The _Era_ also serves as a letter-box to all its subscribers. A special department is open under this heading: THE _ERA_ LETTER-BOX. Then follows, arranged in columns, an alphabetical list of the persons for whom a note has been sent to the newspaper office. _Adeson, M._ _Atleyn, Madame._ _Barry, Miss Helen._ _Chelli, Miss Erminia_, &c. The remainder of the _Era_ is consecrated to artistically-written accounts of all the new theatrical performances going on in the world, and naturally to offers of employment and advertisements for engagements. The most extraordinary fancies are allowed free play in the compilation and typographical arrangement of these advertisements. It is a question of attracting notice at [p006] any price. A clever artist unhesitatingly pays for a whole column, in which horizontally, diagonally, as a cross, or an X, he repeats his own name and acquirements three or four hundred times. I quote the following specimens, taken at random from the columns of the _Era_: A YOUNG MAN, completely disarticulated, wishes to enter into an engagement with a travelling troupe. This artist can be described in the placards either as the _india-rubber man_ or the _serpent man_. He undertakes the monkey parts in pantomimes. MISS MAGGIE VIOLETTE (fixed bars) is free from any engagement after Christmas. A FATHER offers to managers a young girl, fourteen years old, who has only one eye, placed above the nose, and one ear on the shoulder. [Illustration: THE NEW YORK MIRROR] The _Era_ has an American rival also published in English, _The New York Mirror_. This newspaper has only one advantage over the _Era_: it publishes portraits. [Illustration: CENTRAL-ORGAN DER CIRCUS VARIETÉ-UND SPECIALITATEN-BUHNEN SOWIE CONCERT-ETABBLISSEMENTS,- DER SCHAUSTTELLER UND REISENDEN GESCHAFTE.] [p007] [Illustration: M. C. KRAUSS] Germany, however, possesses two newspapers for the _banquistes_: one, under a French title, _La Revue_; the other, which is far the most important, is called _Der Artist_. The complete sub-title is: _Central-Organ zur Vermittlung des Verkehrs zwischen Directoren und Künstlern der Circus, Varietebühnen, reisenden Theater und Schaustellungen_. This paper is printed at Düsseldorf; M. C. Krauss is the chief editor. _Der Artist_ has been established six years. It looks like a weekly review of twenty leaves, printed in three columns. A woodcut, which fills the frontispiece and all the left side of the first page, represents various scenes from the circus [p008] and theatres: “shootists” breaking bottles, horses leaping over bars, pretty equestrians on their highly-trained steeds, tame lions, dwarfs, giants, clowns,—all the attractions of the circus and fair.