Mr. AUBREY SMITH as _Mark Holdsworth_ had a much easier task, and did it with his habitual ease. Mr. WILLIAM FARREN--a very welcome return--was perfect as ever in a good grumpy part. It was strange to see the gentle Miss STELLA CAMPBELL playing the unsympathetic character of a jealous and rather cruel woman; but she took to it quite kindly. Mr. LANCE LISTER, as the boy _Geoffrey_, who kept intervening in the most sportsmanlike way on the weaker side and adjusting some very awkward complications with the gayest and most resolute tact, was extraordinarily good. Admirable, too, were Miss JOYCE CAREY as a shop-girl friend of _Sheila's_ boarding-house period, and Mr. HENRY OSCAR as her "fate," whose line was shirts. The scene in which these two encounter the superior relatives of _Sheila's_ husband abounded in good fun, kept well within the limits of comedy. It was a pure joy to hear _Miss Hooker's_ garrulous efforts to carry off the situation with aggressive gentility; but even more fascinating was the abashed silence of her young man, broken only when he blurted out the word "shirts," and gave the show away. The whole cast was excellent, and Sir GEORGE ALEXANDER must be felicitated on a very clever production. But it is to author and heroine that I beg to offer the best of my gratitude for a most refreshing evening. O.S. * * * * * "You will find that the men most likely to get off the note are those who never really got on to it."--_Musical Times_. The real question is how those who never got on to the note contrive to get off it. * * * * * [Illustration: _Mother_ (_reading paper_). "I SEE A BAKER'S BEEN FINED TEN POUNDS FOR SELLING BREAD LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS OLD." _Alan_ (_who now goes to school by train_--_joining in_). "OH, THINK! AND HE MIGHT HAVE PULLED THE CORD AND STOPPED THE TRAIN _TWICE_ FOR THAT!"] * * * * * OUR BOOKING-OFFICE. (_BY MR. PUNCH'S STAFF OF LEARNED CLERKS_.)