diversion
by standing on a chair and announcing that he was about to introduce to
their notice 'Bert White's World-famed Pandorama' as exhibited before
all the nobility and crowned heads of Europe, England, Ireland and
Scotland, including North America and Wales.

Loud cheers greeted the conclusion of Bert's speech. The box was
placed on the table, which was then moved to the end of the room, and
the chairs were ranged in two rows in front.

The 'Pandorama' consisted of a stage-front made of painted cardboard
and fixed on the front of a wooden box about three feet long by two
feet six inches high, and about one foot deep from back to front. The
'Show' was a lot of pictures cut out of illustrated weekly papers and
pasted together, end to end, so as to form a long strip or ribbon. Bert
had coloured all the pictures with water-colours.

Just behind the wings of the stage-front at each end of the box--was an
upright roller, and the long strip of pictures was rolled up on this.
The upper ends of the rollers came through the top of the box and had
handles attached to them. When these handles were turned the pictures
passed across the stage, unrolling from one roller and rolling on to
the other, and were illuminated by the light of three candles placed
behind.

The idea of constructing this machine had been suggested to Bert by a
panorama entertainment he had been to see some time before.

'The Style of the decorations,' he remarked, alluding to the painted
stage-front, 'is Moorish.'

He lit the candles at the back of the stage and, having borrowed a
tea-tray from Nora, desired the audience to take their seats. When
they had all done so, he requested Owen to put out the lamp and the
candles on the tree, and then he made another speech, imitating the
manner of the lecturer at the panorama entertainment before mentioned.

'Ladies and Gentlemen: with your kind permission I am about to
hinterduce to your notice some pitchers of events in different parts of
the world. As each pitcher appears on the stage I will give a short
explanation of the subject, and afterwards the band will play a
suitable collection of appropriated music, consisting of hymns and all
the latest and most popular songs of the day, and the audience is
kindly requested to join in the chorus.

'Our first scene,' continued Bert as he turned the handles and brought
the picture into view, 'represents the docks at Southampton; the
magnificent steamer w