Well, this is all private and personal, and not much about the Drury Lane Pantomime, it is true; but, as everyone will see "The Only Pantomime" (we have reached the era of the "Onlys"), and be only too delighted, what need I say more than that the _libretto_ is written by Mr. BILL-OF-THE-PLAY YARDLEY conjointly with Mr. DRURIOLANUS AUCTOR, and I daresay it was very witty and rhythmical and poetical, though I didn't catch much of it, and the songs were neither particularly well sung, nor remarkably humorous,--one, introduced by Miss VESTA TILLY (and, therefore, for this our joint authors are not responsible, except for permitting it to be done), being a distinct mistake, and utterly out of character with the part of the _Prince_, as written, which she was representing. And, _à propos_ of songs, the music of this Pantomime lacks "go." WAGNER borrowed from pantomime his notion of dramatic music to carry on the action and tell the story of serious opera; but we don't want our Pantomimes to become Wagnerian; or, at all events, as the lamented GEORGE HODDER would have said, "Let's have plenty of the 'Wag,' and none of the 'nerian.'" What he would have exactly meant by this nobody would have known, but everyone would have laughed, as he was one of those self-patented jesters at whose witticisms the company laughed first and wondered afterwards. DRURIOLANUS MAGNUS, not content with his own special pantomime-pie and a Drama at Covent Garden, has had a finger,--only a little one, perhaps, and not the thumb, with which JOHANNES HORNERIUS extracted the plum,--in the Christmas pie at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, of which the Manager is HORATIUS SEDGERIUS. [Illustration: Seeing the 'Mime, December 30; or, A Draught at Night.] Now, Ladies and Gentlemen, _patres et matres, et tutores_, if you want to know what to take your little children, your bigger children, your boys and girls to see, and what you yourselves, familiar with your THACKERAY as I take you to be, would enjoy seeing, I say emphatically and distinctly, without any evasion, reservation, or mental equivocation, "Go and see, and take them all to see, _The Rose and the Ring_, written by SAVILE CLARKE, with music composed for it by WALTER SLAUGHTER, put on the stage by _Les deux Ajax_ CAROLUS and AUGUSTUS HARRIS,--Christmas CAROLUS being _facile princeps_ at this difficult business."