He merely walked on sideways, a burly, very living Italian, and with a nervous quick glance, to see if he was clearing the wing (which he sometimes did not), off again.

So far as the Goldoni is concerned, Sir Henry Irving, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir Augustus Harris, and Herr Reinhardt have toiled in vain.

Amleto's principle, "The play's the thing," was refined down to "Amleto's the thing".

Yet no English theatre was ever in better spirits.
[Illustration: THE ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN FROM THE PAINTING BY TITIAN _In the Accademia_] Continuing from the Bridge of the Oysters, we come shortly to S.
Zobenigo, or S.Maria del Giglio (of the lily), of which the guide-books take very little account, but it is a friendly, cheerful church with a sweet little dark panelled chapel at the side, all black and gold with rich tints in its scriptural frieze.

The church is not famous for any picture, but it has a quaint relief of S.Jerome in his cell, with his lion and his books about him, in the entrance hall, and the first altar-piece on the left seemed to me a pleasant soft thing, and over the door are four female saints freely done.