3-052-546 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sketches at the Brighton Theatre of War: "Alarums", 1880. In the title...there is a pardonable allusion to those well-known Shakspearean stage-directions for a theatrical battle-scene, "Alarums and Excursions." The alarum-clock, by which a gallant volunteer has provided himself with an early morning summons, to prepare for his duty on the field of action, is not a military contrivance; but its shrill note of "ding, ding, ding," may do instead of the martial sound of bugle or clarion, to rouse him from pacific slumbers, at the inn or lodging where he has passed the night'. From "Illustrated London News", 1880.