The 19th Sent'ry Guards Burlesque.
The music was admirably selected by Mr. Edward Solomon, the "Baker Roll" from Pickwick going capitally. The scenery, by the Hon. Arnold Keppel (late Scots Guards), was good, and "the writing up to date," by Mr. Yardley (never to be forgotten on the field of cricket), was better.
For the rest, I may say that the Guards' Burlesque Company, from a theatrical professional stand-point, were hardly "Gaiety form," but, as amateurs, they were simply magnificent. There was no supper—but this is a detail. Yours sincerely,
A Very Old Soldier.
The Plains of Waterloo, in rear of the Army and Navy Stores, S. W.
"Lent Lectures."—A Correspondent signing himself "Missing Link," says, that he frequently sees Lectures advertised as above, and wants to know if they come into the same category with "Borrowed Sermons."
[Don't know. Consult Mr. F. Jeune, Q.C., or the Archbishop of Canterbury.—Ed.]