There is such a galaxy of talent, specially of Music-hall talent, with the two MARIES, LOFTUS and LLOYD, the CAMPBELL of that ilk, comical DAN LENO (who looks so comically Thin O), and the amusing Brothers GRIFFITHS, but without the donkey, and with no quadruped to equal him, though they do make beasts of themselves by appearing as wolves, who will not be kept from the door of _Granny Green_, Mr. JOHN D'AUBAN, utterly unrecognisable. Besides these is a Variety Show of other Stars, including ever-graceful EMMA D'AUBAN, and Miss MABEL LOVE, of the "skirts-so movement," both rightly reckoned in the programme as among "the Immortals." Only one fault can be found with the Pantomime, and that is, that there are too many brilliant Stars in it. They can't all of them, each and severally, get an opportunity of showing how he or she can shine in his or her own particular bright way; and so it happens that the earliest scenes, which are less crowded, are the best for fun, though in the latter, and specially in the one just preceding the transformation, there is some capital comic business, and "LITTLE TICH" is at his best in his burlesque of the Skirt Dance. We wonder that this clever diminutive person has never appeared as "_the_ Claimant _par excellence_." But perhaps his name is not "TICH" at all, and so, on his first appearance on the world's stage, he was not a "_Tich-born_." The _Extravaganza_ portion of the Pantomime--formerly styled the "Opening"--gave us great pleasure, and the two "Comic Scenes"--(what are all the preceding ones? Are CAMPBELL, LENO, WILLIAMS, and "LITTLE TICH," all tragedians?)--gave us Great PAYNE--yclept HARRY PAYNE, the good old Conservative "JOEY." If the possibilities, "_per variation et mutation_" of gorgeous modern Pantomime, are exhausted--"which," as EUCLID observes, "is impossible"--except we may "add a rider" (as the Clown in the Circle might observe) that Pantomime is, in itself, a _reductio ad absurdum_--then, perchance, Sir DRURIOLANUS MAGNIFICUS may give us next Christmas a Shorter Opening, say ten Scenes, to be followed by six Harlequinade Scenes, treating, by way of "Review," all the leading topics of Ninety-Three. _Nous verrons_--at least, such is our hope. And so a Prosperous New Year to Sir DRURIOLANUS, and all his works. * * * * * NOVEL, BUT NOT NEW. (_A Story of Romance in Town and Country._) SCENE I.--_Publisher's Sanctum._ Amateur Author _discovered in consultation with_ Enterprising Publisher. _Enterprising Publisher._ Yes, my dear Sir, I think, if you pay all the expenses, we can see our way to giving _An Oppressed Ophelia_ a chance. _Amateur Author._ You would not take a small risk?