Mr. TREE makes a thoroughly oriental type of _Issachar_, and it is within an ace of being a grand impersonation. What that ace exactly is, it is somewhat difficult to say, but what _is_ wanting is wanting in his great scene with his daughter. If the dramatist had given him such another final chance as I have already suggested, the character might have been dramatically perfected in Mr. TREE'S hands. As it is, both by author and actor it is left "to be finished in our next." Mr. TERRY is good as the amatory Monk, and Miss JULIA NEILSON is statuesquely graceful as _Hypatia_. If I say "she is making strides in her profession," I must be taken to allude not to her vast improvement histrionically, but to the long steps which she takes across the stage. The costumes are admirable, especially that of _Issachar_, on whose attire the Messrs. NATHAN as Israel-lights-and-leaders must be considered high authorities. [Illustration: From an Ancient Vase found in the Haymarket.] Mr. ALMA TADEMA, R.A., is responsible for the designs of the scenery by Messrs. JOHNSTONE, HANN, HALL, and HARKER. [Great chance for 'ARRY 'ere! "Scenery by 'ANN--a lady artist of course--then 'ALL and then 'ARKER, from designs by HALMA TADEMA." "I s'pose HALMA'S a artistic shemale," 'ARRY would say: "cos I know as there's another HALMA on the stage, leastways on the Music 'All stage, and she's HALMA STANLEY."] Whatever the designing ALMA may have done, I cannot say much for the reproduction of his favourite game of marbles. The "marble halls" lack polish; but the Market Place, The Court of _Hypatia's_ House, _Issachar's_ snuggery, and a Street in Alexandria, are highly effective pictures. But I should like to know if in Mr. ALMA TADEMA'S design for the Monk's dress, Mr. FRED TERRY found a small black and silver crucifix of very modern workmanship suspended from the girdle, as this religious emblem did not come into use until a much later date. By the way, ecclesiastical ornaments must have been cheap in those days to warrant _Bishop Cyril_ (strongly rendered by Mr. FERNANDEZ) flaunting about the streets of Alexandria in such rainbow robes as, in a later age, would have led people to imagine that he had just broken out of the stained glass window of a Gothic Cathedral. Two thousand years hence the New Zealand dramatist may represent the Archbishop of CANTERBURY as walking about London in his lawn sleeves with coronation cope and mitre, or Cardinal HERBERT VAUGHAN as wearing his scarlet hat and robes, and riding in a Hansom cab, having been unable to pick up his own Cardinal's train. All this were hypercriticism, but that the name of ALMA TADEMA, R.A., is a public guarantee for academical accuracy.