And that is why I say, O authors, remember to join your flats.
The Slump in Prussians.
(Sortes Vergilianæ.)
"Procumbit humi Bosch."
AT THE PLAY.
"Searchlights."
The title was not, of course, meant to deceive, for Mr. Vachell is an honest man; and anyhow the critics, for that is their business, would be swift to disillusionize the public; but in our permissible state of suspicion, the audience might easily be led to suppose from the word "Searchlights," combined with the early appearance of an imported Teuton in the person of Sir Adalbert Schmaltz, that spy-work was in the air. But the genial domesticity of this naturalized Scot quickly disposed of our unworthy apprehensions, and we soon learned that his provenance had no bearing upon the issue.