Surely this would be an improvement upon the conventional reading? In this case where speech is silvern, silence would be golden.

Trusting some Manager will take the matter up,

I remain, always yours sincerely,

A DUMB WAITER.


OPERATIC NOTES.

Monday.—Faust and Foremost. Miss EAMES better even than she was last week. NED DE RESZKÉ not so diabolical a Mephistopheles as M. MAUREL.

NEDDY RESZKÉ

Not so goblineske,

and a stouter sort of demon, but of course a "bon diable."