rbian accent.

[Illustration: RIVER SCENE NEAR WESTMINSTER.

_Claude Duval_ (Mr. Bourchier) disposes of his rival, _de Pontac_ (Mr.
Murray Carrington) in a riparian duel.]

Not much subtlety was asked of Miss KYRLE BELLEW as _Duval's_ lover,
_Berinthia_; but she seemed to have learned a little more sincerity and
to depend less upon the prettiness of her face and her frocks. Of Miss
MIRIAM LEWES as _Orange Moll_ something more was demanded, and I should
have enjoyed without reservation her very picturesque performance but
for a certain stage-quality in her voice which was out of all consonance
with the part she had to play. Mr. JERROLD ROBERTSHAW as _Justice
Hogben_ was a most attractive old reprobate; Mr. CHARLES ROCK as a
strolling mummer played like the sound actor he is; and indeed the whole
cast--and not least in the smallest parts, such as Mr. HARTFORD'S
drunken _Gaoler_ and Mr. PEASE'S _Dognose_, with his delightfully
unemotional "Ay! ay!"--did very well indeed.

If the play opens rather deliberately there is no lack of action when
once it gets moving; but it was an exercise of bodies rather than of
minds. Swords flashed; barkers were flourished (though they never went
off); feet twinkled in the dance, and Mr. MURRAY CARRINGTON took several
astounding falls; but wits remained stationary. I do not wish to appear
exigent, but as one who likes to be amused as well as entertained I
could easily have done with a little more scintillation.

O. S.

* * * * *

"INJER."

(To the Author of "The Grand Tour," "Punch," January 26th, 1916.)

I read your lines the other day;
You got it down in black an' white;
You seen them places wot you say;
Well, I seen Injer--and you're right.

You never know. I took the bob
The days o' Mons an' Charley Roy;
Flanders, I thought, 'ud do my job,
An' me no better than a boy.

But some'ow Flanders got a miss,
An' I came East, the same as you,
Right East, an' finished up wi' this;
_I_ seen them towns and islands too.

But Injer! Lor, it's like a book
Or like a bloomin' fancy ball;
There's somethin' every way you look,
An' me--young me--I seen it all.

I know about them "dark bazaars"--
An' dark they is--I know them skies,
An' suns an' moons an' silver stars
An' 'ummin'-birds an' fiery-flies.

I seen the palms an' parrokeets,
I've 'eard the jackals in the night,
I've ate the