The existence of such a functionary as the prompter may be one of those things which are "generally known;" but the knowledge should not come, to those who sit in front of the curtain, from any exercise of their organs of sight or of sound.

To do the prompter justice, he is rarely visible; but his tones, however still and small they may pretend to be, sometimes travel to those whom they do not really concern.

One of the first scraps of information acquired by the theatrical student relates to the meaning of the letters P.S.and O.P.

Otherwise he might, perhaps, have some difficulty in comprehending the apparently magnetic attraction which one particular side of the proscenium has for so many of our players.

We say _our_ players advisedly, for the position of the prompter is different on the foreign stage.