STANLEY LUPINO.
_Flossie_ ... Mr. WILL EVANS.]

Mr. HARRY CLAFF as the Wicked Uncle (with a note or two in the
operatic manner) belied his villainous nature by an unusually amiable
temperament; and Miss FLORENCE SMITHSON, with her dainty air, furnished
interludes of conventional song, during which we gave our ribs a rest.

The dancing, as usual, was rather perfunctory, if one excepts a _pas de
deux_ which gave promise of a parody of the Russians and turned out to
be just a series of contortionist feats, brilliant but unlovely.

As good wine needs no bush, so good babes need no wood; but Messrs.
McCLEERY and HUMPHRIES painted for them a quite nice one, where, after
some very pleasant business with a brace of giant mushrooms that went
up and down like a lift, the robins came and camouflaged the wanderers
under a counterpane of fallen leaves, where they behaved much better
than in ordinary beds. But the best scene was M. MARC HENRI's Temple of
Peace--very beautiful with its dim perspective, till the garish light of
"The Day" was turned on. Here the assertive colours of the Allies were
tempered to an exquisite pale harmony, only slightly damaged by a
nondescript contingent in pink (possibly neutrals) and the apparition of
Mr. ARTHUR COLLINS and other gentlemen in black, who came on to receive
the expression of our grateful approbation.

I stayed long enough into the Harlequinade to see little Prince OLAF of
Norway, in QUEEN ALEXANDRA's box, capture a large cracker dexterously
flung to him by the Pantaloon. So ended for me an evening more jocund
than I have had the good grace to admit.

O. S.

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OUR CLASSICAL ADVERTISERS.

"The trade-mark name of tins coat--'Aquascutum'--is a Latin word,
and translated into our own good English, 'Aqua,' means water.
'Scutum' means to shed. There you are--Watershed."

_Advt. in Canadian Paper._

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"They belileve that an not inconsiderable number of
dddeeeeeddlllllllcleeeeeece cw pavem ponnun _ex-parte_ opinions are
given for what they may be worth."

_Manchester Paper._

For our part we belileve this estimate of the value of _ex-parte_
opinions, of the kind indicated, to be sound, if rather scathing.

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"In lieu of the February Sale and Spring Show, hitherto held in
April, an important sale of pure-bred bulls will b