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Mr. ARTHUR WILLIAMS as Zuniga is very droll, reminding some of us, by his make-up and jerky style, of MILHER as the comic Valentine in Le Petit Faust.  Mr. LONNEN is also uncommonly good as the spoony soldier, and in the telling song of “The Bogie Man;” and in the still more telling dance with which he finishes it and makes his exit, he makes the hit of the evening,—­in fact the hit by which the piece will he remembered, and to which it owes the greater part of its success.

In the authors’ latest adaptation of the very ancient “business” of “the statues”—­consisting of a verse, and then an attitude, I was disappointed, as I had been led to believe that here we should see what Mr. LONNEN could do in the Robsonian or burlesque-tragedy style.  The brilliancy of the costumes, of the scenery, the grace of the four dancers, and the excellence of band and chorus, under the direction of that ancient mariner MEYER LUTZ, are such as are rarely met with elsewhere.

Mr. GEORGE EDWARDES may now attend to the building of his new theatre, as Carmen up to Data will not give him any trouble for some time to come.

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OUR BOOKING-OFFICE.

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Only a Penny!  And well worth every halfpenny of it.  I am alluding to the Christmas Number of the Penny Illustrated Paper, in which appears A Daughter of the People, by JOHN LATEY, Junior, who is Junior than ever in December.  Capital Christmas Number, and will attract an extraordinary number of Christmas readers.

The Rosebud Annual, published by JAMES CLARK & CO., is quite a bright posy for our very little ones.

Turning from novels, it is a relief to come across so inviting a little volume as the Pocket Atlas, and Gazetteer of Canada, which will be found of the greatest possible value to eccentric Londoners who purpose visiting the Dominion during the coming Winter.

“Persicos odi,” but you won’t agree with HORACE if you follow this “puer apparatus” of G. NORWAY, who, in Hussein’s Hostage, gives us the exciting adventures of a Persian boy.

’Twixt School and College, by GORDON STABLES, has nothing to do with horsey experiences, as suggested by the author’s name, but is the uneventful home-life of a poor Scotch laddie, who triumphs by dint of pluck.

Nutbrown Roger and I, by J.H.  YOXALL, a romance of the highway, quite in the correct style of disguises and blunderbusses always so necessary for a tale of this kind.

Disenchantment is the—­not altogether—­enticing title of “an everyday story,” by F. MABEL ROBINSON, author of The Plan of Campaign.  It is rather a long tale to tell, for it takes 432 pages in the unravelling.  It ends with a beautiful avowal that “the heart is no more unchanging than the mind, and that love’s not immortal, but an illusion.”  As the utterer of this truism is a young married woman, it would seem that the foundation is laid for a sequel to Disenchantment that might be appropriately called Divorce.