SARAH JEANNE of Arc.  SARAH wrapt up in the visionary creation is comparatively lost in the part; that is, until she comes out magnificently in the last scene but one.  Otherwise, except to look the Martyr, and to languish, nothing much for SARAH to do.  Cathedral scene here rivals that at Covent Garden.  SARAH wins and thrills the audience:  her voice soothes them in their most ruffled humour, even after the audience has been kept waiting nearly twenty-five minutes between the Acts.  Everyone disappointed that the funeral pile does not catch fire, and that the Curtain does not descend on a sensational scene, for which Captain SHAW and his Merry Men would have to be in attendance.  The cast good all round, but it’s more of an Opera, or a religious play, than a Melodrama.  GOUNOD’S music not particularly striking, and the March sounds familiar.  SARAH JEANNE holds the audience spell-bound to the end, rather by what she doesn’t than by what she does, except in the great scene already mentioned. Jeanne d’Arc is to run on till further notice, and then Madame SARAH will appear in some of her well-known parts, and take a temporary farewell of the British Public.  To those who have hitherto neglected opportunities of seeing SARAH JEANNE let this notice be a warning, and let them in their thousands hurry up to His Mayerjesty’s.

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“CAN WORMS SEE?”—­Vide St. James’s Gazette and Field.  Correspondent says worms do not shrink from candle-light, but immediately withdraw under the glare of a bull’s-eye lantern.  Evidently for exact information, “Ask a Policeman.”  Also consult Baron DE WORMS. He sees his way about well enough.

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[Illustration:  A PRACTICAL MEMENTO.

Sir James.  “AND WERE YOU IN ROME?”

American Lady.  “I GUESS NOT.” (To her Daughter.) “SAY, BELLA, DID WE VISIT ROME?”

Fair Daughter.  “WHY, MA, CERT’NLY!  DON’T YOU REMEMBER?  IT WAS IN ROME WE BOUGHT THE LISLE-THREAD STOCKINGS!”

American Lady is convinced.]

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“IN TROUBLE.”

  “Three Men in a Boat!” And you don’t often see
    Pair oars and their cox. in a nastier fix. 
  They started all right, did this nautical Three,
    But they’ve managed to get in no end of a mix. 
  That Steersman, he thought a good deal of his Stroke,
    And there seemed scarce a steadier oarsman than Bow,
  But they must have got “skylarking.”  Ah! it’s no joke,
    And the question is what are they going to do now? 
  For danger’s a-head, and ’twill tax all their skill
  To avoid a capsize and a horrible spill.