... on Christmas Eve. Concern ing this earliest of many varied programmes that are to be presented, it would be superfluous to speak. Of Mr. Toole's Caleb Plummer, of Mr. John Billington's John Perrybingle, really full of the true poetry of heart, of which ...

... on the following night he will in the House of Commons speak against the Argentine Canal scheme, and will denounce it a3 a cruel imposition, a swindle. Will he, Sir Robert, alter bis mind, and speak in favour of the undertaking? The statesman naturally ...

... suspected. If the wife and the mother-in-law think his guilt clearly estab- l lished, elsewhere tho parentage of the child, ho to speak, goes into commission. A i jealous sea-captain believes that the mother- in-law, Mrs. Gullick (to whom he is en gaged) shares ...

... w'tl' them. The groupings, which pr. .exquisite, were accomplished with marvellous hjhii. and raP'dity. It is impossible to speak too all tii tlle defined taste exhibited in the dresses, With e ost delicate colours were brought into play ttirouui Perfect ...

... Mr. Hall, and of Major Glossop, who find, from papers left by the dead mother and other evidence, that the rough, slang- speaking, but loving match- girl is the missing heiress. All this is familiar enough to old theatrical hands, a touch of nature being ...

... the better for a little additional emphasis and distinctiveness. The Tigertail of Miss Clara Jecks, it may be mentioned in speaking of Muster Grinnidge and Jack Gong, is a clever study. Among the exponents of the minor male parts, Mr. Marshall Moore is ...

... madcap who gives the title to the piece. Of her cousin's protesta tions Daphne makes light but to her master, who does not speak his love, she gives very many cues for a declaration. Mrs. Barton, too, is favourable to John Read. But the tutor, for no ...

... manner in which tho dramatist haa built up his characters, each one acting as a foil to its fellow; all that remains ia to speak of the acting of the company now appearing in it, and here it were wise to ignore all past poi formanccs of tho same play. ...

... pleted. Mr. Leonard Robson, possessed of a good speaking voico, may bo commended for thoughtful and intelligent elooution as Laortes. Mr. Frank Fuller also merits pr?ise in this direction for his speaking tho lines allotted to the Ghost. Mr. L. E. llelfe ...

... rather ke'p than hampers hor. Bulwer, in writing tho work, deliberately exhaled the atmosphere of melodrama. Ho walked, so to speak, on stilts; and so do his heroine and his hero There is no lack of intelligence either in the r Pauline of Mrs. Potter or in ...

... give the satire its point. Where, it may be asked, in this succession of scenes, is the drama proper There is, practically speaking, no plot in the play, and, indeed, Paris Fin de Siecle would lose half its claim to be a reflection of advanced notions in ...

... hugely entertain the house. Miss Jenny Lee, as old Kesiah Honeywood, too, has many a diverting line to speak and often a homely one and she speaks them all with her innate cleverness. Excellent scenery and effects further set off the general attractions ...