... much success, the well-known comedy of Old Phil's Birthday, and the comic drama of The Post Boy. Mr J. H. Toome of the Sadler's Wells Theatre, London, appeared each night in his. renowned characters of the Post Boy and Old Phil, and his acting elicited ...

... meagre and acid mind cannot fail to give evi- dence of its meagre and acid intelligence. This melodramatic malignity and Sadler's Wells sarcasm—this wagging the finger and bating the breath—this speaking daggers but using all very fine. Coming from any quarter ...