[** Transcriber's Note: The [oe] ligature has been replaced with simply "oe". The cross symbols have been replaced by [cross]. Greek words have been transliterated, and enclosed in square brackets, e.g. [Greek: kala reethra] In the original, the Signs of the Zodiac song on page 397 contains astrological symbols after each mention of the signs of the zodiac. The symbols have been omitted in this text version. ] [Illustration: GEORGE COLMAN, The Younger] BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY VOL. I. LONDON: RICHARD BENTLEY, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1837. LONDON: PRINTED BY SAMUEL BENTLEY, Dormet Street, Fleet Street. EDITOR'S ADDRESS ON THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST VOLUME. At the end of a theatrical season it is customary for the manager to step forward, and, in as few words as may be, to say how very much obliged he feels for all past favours, and how very ready he is to incur fresh obligations. With a degree of candour which few managers would display, we cheerfully confess that we have been fairly inundated with _orders_ during our six months' campaign; but so liberal are we, notwithstanding, that we place many of the very first authors of the day on our free list, and invite them to write for our establishment just as much paper as they think proper. We have produced a great variety of novelties, some of which we humbly hope may become stock pieces, and all of which we may venture to say have been must successful; and, although we are not subject to the control of a licenser, we have eschewed everything political, personal, or ill-natured, with perhaps as much care as we could possibly have shown, even had we been under the watchful eye of the Lord Chamberlain himself. We shall open our Second Volume, ladies and gentlemen, on the first day of July, One thousand eight hundred and thirty-seven, when we shall have the pleasure of submitting a great variety of entirely new pieces for your judgment and approval. The company will be numerous, first-rate, and complete. The scenery will continue to be supplied by the creative pencil of Mr. George Cruikshank; the whole of the extensive and beautiful machinery will be, as heretofore, under the immediate superintendence of Mr. Samuel Bentley, of Dorset-street, Fleet-street; and Mr. Richard Bentley, of New Burlington-street, has kindly consented to preside over the Treasury department, where he has already conducted himself with uncommon ability.