O SARAH B.! O Mr. ABBEY! What un-ABBEY thought induced you to select so dreary a play as _Pauline Blanchard_ wherewith to weary the British Public? And what a finish! _Pauline_, all for the sake of her disappointed lover, kills her husband with a sickle!--a sickle-ly sight--and then reaps her reward. M. PERON, the Maire, was effective. Ancient _Angelina_, Mme. GILBERTE FLEURY, "fetched" everybody, and in her turn was fetched by M. FLEURY from a loft where stage-business had taken her in the previous Act, in order to receive her share of the plaudits. We hear that SARAH has accepted a One-Act piece called _Salammbô_, by OSCAR WILDE. Naturally we all see SARAH in the first part of _Sal_. Perhaps the "_ambo_" means SARAH and OSCAR. Being an Eastern subject, SARAH sees the chance in it of a Sara-scenic success. On Saturday last, with her wonderful _La Tosca_ in the afternoon, and her _Dame aux Camélias_ (the "O'Camélias" sounds like an Irish title) at night, SARAH regularly "knocked them" in the Shaftesbury Avenue. No one interested in dramatic art should miss seeing SARAH, at all events, in _La Dame aux Camélias_. * * * * * PARTICULAR AND GENERAL RELATIONSHIP.--Mr. GEORGE CURZON, as the _Saturday Review_ remarks in its notice of _Curzon's Persia_, "is not the first of his family who has written a good book of Eastern travel." The author, then, is not a first, but a second, or third CURZON, and this particular work of authorship creates a new kinship, as his travels are, now, related to the public. * * * * * OPERATIC NOTES. [Illustration: Isolde, seated on a sham rock, awaiting the coming of her lover. Alas! all ends unharpily!] _Wednesday._--The Irish Question, heard for the first time operatically, put by The O'WAGNER in his music-story of "_Tristan und Isolde_." The story is decidedly a _triste 'un and is old_ no doubt of it. Frau SUCHER first rate as the Irish Princess _Isolde_. Herr ALVARY plays _Her Tristan_; good, but not great. All vary well. As _Kurwenal_, Herr KNAPP, in spite of his name, kept everyone awake, and did his very best; in fact, "went Knapp." Fräulein RALPH was charming as _Braugäne_, and her manner of inducing the Princess of the Most Distressful Country to take to the bottle--KINAHAN's L.L.L.--deserved the encore which she ought to have received. No matter--Fräulein RALPH played with spirit, which is a dangerous thing to do as a rule. House crammed: not packed. [Illustration: "HOW'S YOUR POOR FEET?" The Pedicure Motif. Shepherd, with pipe, suffering from "Corno Inglese," showing Triste 'Un, the Cornish Knight, where he may seek relief from his Bunions' Pilgrim's Progress.]