Ils défendent tous les desseins Où l'on peut voir les bras, le sein, à Glasgow. Jamais nus; même dans un bain Sont-ils tout habillés enfin? (_Parlé_) Matin! A Glasgow. Portez des lunett's; l'oeil nu Est absolûment défendu à Glasgow. Des corps nus ils n'ont jamais vus Là, où leurs raisonn'ments sont plus (_Parlé_) Cornus! A Glasgow. [Sidenote: _Irving's Knighthood_] The closing of the Empire Theatre on the score of the improper character of the performances inspired a cartoon in which "Miss Prowlina Pry" (the L.C.C.) "hopes she doesn't intrude." The accompanying verses, protesting against the action of the new Bumbledom, compare unfavourably in their heavy-heeled satire with the verses quoted above. Ada Rehan in _Twelfth Night_ is a pleasant memory to middle-aged playgoers. _Punch_ did not acquit her Viola of a certain restlessness, but acknowledged that at times she acted like one inspired. To the same year belongs his tribute to the "imitative charms" of Cissie Loftus in a set of verses alluding to her imitations of May Yohé, Florence St. John, Jane May, Yvette Guilbert and Letty Lind, names that bear witness to the "fugacity" of the years and the transitoriness of stage popularity. [Illustration: TRUE APPRECIATION (Overheard at the Theatre.) MRS. PARVENU: "I don't know that I'm exactly _gorne_ on Shakespeare plays." (_Mr. P. agrees._) ] In 1895 _Punch_ waxed lyrical over Tree as Svengali and Miss Dorothea Baird in the title _rôle_ of the dramatized version of _Trilby_. He bestowed the "highest order of histrionic merit" on Irving for his Corporal Brewster in Conan Doyle's _Story of Waterloo_, and, in the cartoon recording his knighthood, congratulated him in the name of the profession through the mouth of David Garrick. Pinero's play, _The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith_, is described as "a drama of inaction" owing to the length of the speeches, but praise is liberally bestowed on Hare, Forbes-Robertson and Mrs. Patrick Campbell. The popularity of a now forgotten work of advanced fiction--_Keynotes_, by "George Egerton"--is attested by _Punch's_ perversion of the title of the piece into "_The Key-note-orious Mrs. Ebbsmith_." The revival of _Romeo and Juliet_ served as the occasion for jest seasoned with shrewdness:-- Mrs. Patrick Campbell's "Juliet" takes the poison but not the cake. Her "Juliet" has over her the shadow of Paula Tanqueray.... Watching Forbes Robertson as "Romeo" I could not help thinking what an excellent "Hamlet" he would make; perhaps when I see him in that character I shall remember how good he was in "Romeo."