The _Quasimodo_ of M. DUFRICHE, of the Vibrato school, was dramatically good, but not great; but _Claude Frollo_ was both great and good. These two have been defrauded of their rights by the undramatic Librettist, who has done about as little as possible with the excellent materials at his command. What a scene might have been the final one between _Quasimodo_ and _Claude_, when _Claude Frollo_ is pitched over the battlements. I forget what becomes of _Quasi_; but if he stabs himself, or is stabbed, that would be quite sufficient for dramatic justice and effect. Then, of course, the absurd ceremony used by _Clopin_, and the real unwillingness of _Esmeralda_ to become _Gringoire's_ wife, would dispose of the marriage, unless _Gringoire_ were previously got rid of (for I don't remember how the novel ends) and _Esmeralda_ would be united to _Phoebus_, while _Fleur-de-Lys_ could marry _De Chevreuse_, or anybody else. [Illustration: HOW IT OUGHT TO HAVE ENDED. Mr. Justice Butt pronounces a decree of divorce. Phoebus marries Esmeralda. Claude Frollo is smashed, and Quasimodo is stabbed.] The Goat, too, has a wretched part: to be left out after the first scene is too bad. Something might have been done with him, if he had only been put into a chaise; but perhaps _Esmeralda_ and _Phoebus_ reserve him for further use in the course of a couple of years or so, when _Djali_, drawing a goat-chaise containing a little _Esmeralda_ and a little _Phoebus_, followed by a nurse and Papa and Mamma, would make a sensation at some fashionable seaside resort. [Illustration: _The Goat_. "I ought to have the second principal part in this Opera. If they don't produce _Dinorah_, I shall give notice. Too bad of Goring Thomas. If I see him alone I'll show him what 'Butting' Thomas is."] Mons. MONTARIOL played and sang well as _Gringoire_, and Mons. WINOGRADOFF was most artistic as _Clopin_, Amusing to see Mons. LASSALLE as _Claude Frollo_, melodramatically hiding behind the window-curtains, just as _Phoebus_ enters the room followed by _Esmeralda_. So evidently was the curtain shaken, that _Phoebus_ would most certainly have detected the sneak, or he might have asked _Esmeralda_, "What's that?" and have asserted his belief that it could not possibly be the cat, but he might have accepted her explanation had she informed him that it was the Goat. What a chance here lost for a situation of the Goat behind curtains butting _Claude Frollo_! However, it was all "purtendin'," and JEAN DE RESZKÉ as _Phoebus_ didn't see what he would most certainly have noticed immediately had he been himself. Magnificently got up; _mise-en-scène_ excellent; band and chorus all that could be wished. * * * * * BULLY FOR THE COLONEL!