[38] Commentary on the practice of securing seats at Drury Lane Theatre is to be found in the "Private correspondence" addressed to David Garrick: "SIR.--The many proofs you have given the town of your desire to oblige them, encourage me to propose to you a scheme no less advantageous than useful to the public, especially the polite part of it. The alterations lately made in your theatre for the convenience of the spectators, naturally suggested to me an inconvenience arising from the servants who are sent to keep places. I have, with concern, seen a lady finely dressed forced to sit down by a servant whose clothes and feet have been very dirty, and behaviour extremely offensive; it has happened, to my knowledge, that some servants, in order to follow their own pleasures, have hired common porters of the street to keep their places, whose company better suited a prison than a place of polite entertainment." Signed T. B. Nov. 25, 1762. [39] Handel gave a performance of his Oratorio "Joseph" at the King's Theatre, Haymarket, on the 21st of March, 1745. [40] The singers in 1751 were Mrs. Arne, Signora Galli' Signora Frasi, Miss Young, Mr. Beard, Mr. Baker, Signor Guadagni. INDEX. Abbey Glee Club, 53 Abrams, 81, 91 Acis and Galatea, 8, 23, 28 Addison, 3, 4, 9 Ah me, what fears, 132 Alas, the horrors, 70 Aldrich, 66 Alexander's Feast, 93 Alfred, 15, 20, 33, 41, 46, 114, 116, 122, 124 Alfred, go forth, 121 Allegro, 20 Amelia, Princess, 10 Amphitryon, 29 Anderson, 134 Angels ever bright, 132 Arcadian nuptials, 62 ARNE-- Actor, 30 At Cliefden, 114 At Eton, 3, 6 At Stratford-on-Avon, 67 Birth of composer, 1 Burial, 101 Conductor, 35 Death, 96 Employs ladies in Choir, 51 Father of composer, 1 First composition, 9 Flautist, 7 Grandfather of composer, 1, 4 Harpsichordist, 22 His will, 98 In Dublin, 19 In Edinburgh, 40 Introduces P.F. accomp., 51 Leaves wife in Dublin, 46 Marriage, 21 Member Soc. of Mus., 14 Mother of composer, 2, 11, 13, 15 Mus. Doc. Oxon, 49 Reunited to wife, 94 Son Michael born, 38 Violinist, 8, 22, 125 Wife of composer, 2, 11, 13, 15, 20, 22, 24, 46, 57, 72, 94, 102, 115, 125, 127 Arne, Edward, 4 Arne, Michael, bro. of composer, 9 Arne, Michael, Mrs., 79 Arne, Michael, son of composer, 38, 62, 77, 92, 97, 101 Arne, Susanna, sis. of composer, 9 Arnold, 92, 102 Artaxerxes, 54, 61 As you like it, 17, 28 Attwood, 136 Augusta, Princess, 12, 112 Baddely, 67, 70 Baildon, 24, 27, 66, 127 Baker, 127, 129 Banks, 2 Barbarini, 114 Barbatielli, 29 Barbier, 9 Barnes, 4 Barry, 34, 84 Barthelemon, 50, 74 Barthelemon, Mrs., 67, 95, 102 Barthelemon, Cecelia M., 94, 115 Bartholomew fair, 113 Battle Symphony, 133 Bayly, 47 Beard, 13, 15, 17, 49, 55, 58, 61, 121, 129 Beethoven, 133 Beggar's Opera, 29, 49, 61