sketches, and said if Egan would only undertake the letterpress, he should find no difficulty in getting Ackermann, Sherwood, or any of the art publishers of the day, to undertake its publication. But Egan's hands were full, and he declined the offer. Two years later on, author and artist again met, and the result was that "The Life of an Actor, Peregrine Proteus," made its appearance, "illustrated by twenty-seven coloured scenes and nine woodcuts, representing the vicissitudes of the stage". The publisher was Arnold, of Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, who paid the young artist one hundred and fifty pounds fifteen shillings for his share of the work. "The Life of an Actor" was published at a guinea, and dedicated to Edmund Kean; and a contemporary critic describes it as "one of the best exemplifications of Mr. Egan's peculiar talent. It is impossible for us," he continues, "to do justice to the spirit of the designs, many of which would [of course] not discredit the pencil of Hogarth." Lane's association with one of the most noted sporting characters of the day opened the way to him for further engagements, and for another work, entitled, "A Complete Panorama of the Sporting World," he executed thirteen original etchings, and an equal number of designs on wood. Among the number of Theodore Lane's social satires may be mentioned _Scientific Pursuits, or Hobbyhorse Races to the Temple of Fame_, four folio plates; _The Parson's Clerk_ (a comic song), four illustrations in ridicule of cant and hypocrisy; _Legal Illustrations_ (seventy humorous applications of law terms); _The Masquerade at the Argyll Rooms_ (a large plate full of vigour, life, and character); _New Year's Morning: the Old One out, and the New One coming in_, a party of topers, one of whom--the chairman, with the empty punch-bowl on his head (representing "the old one out")--merrily points at the waiter bringing a full bowl ("the new one") in; _Sunday Morning--the Barber's Shop_; _Shilling Fare to a Christmas Dinner, or Just in Pudding Time_; _The Rival Whiskers_; and _Amorous, Clamorous, Uproarious, and Glorious_ (a pair of admirable and amusing satires of the prevailing features, vices, and follies of the day); _Crowding to the Pit_ and _Contending for a Seat_ (two capital theatrical subjects). Lane also made a sketch entitled, _Paul Pry's First Night in a Boarding House_, intended to be succeeded by eleven others, the publication of which was however prevented by the death of Liston. McLean published a large and clever design, bearing the somewhat lengthy title of _Law Gorging on the Spoils of Fools and Rogues, and Honest Men among Knavery, producing Repentance and Ruin; or, the Fatal Effects of Legal Rapacity_,--wherein the highway of Law conducts to Ruin through a series of toll-gates labelled respectively, "Opinion of Counsel," "Injunction," "Filing the Bill," "Consultation," "Procrastination," etc.