'While watching the progress of the action at Sadlers' Wells,' says the dramatic critic of the 'Times,' in the criticism of the Comedy of Errors before referred to, directing attention to the juvenile air of the piece, to 'the classic severity in the form of the play,' and 'that _baldness_ of treatment which is a peculiarity of antique comedy'--'while watching the progress of the action at Sadlers' Wells, _we may almost fancy we are at St. Peter's College_, witnessing the annual performance of _the Queen's scholars_.' That is not surprising to one acquainted with the history of these plays, though the criticism which involves this kind of observation is not exactly the criticism to which we have been accustomed here. But any one who wishes to see, as a matter of antiquarian curiosity, or for any other purpose, how far from being hampered in the first efforts of his genius with _this_ class of educational associations, that particular individual would naturally have been, in whose unconscious brains this department of the modern learning is supposed to have had its accidental origin,--any one who wishes to see in what direction the antecedents of a person in that station in life would naturally have biased, _at that time_, his first literary efforts, if, indeed, he had ever so far escaped from the control of circumstances as to master the art of the collocation of letters--any person who has any curiosity whatever on this point is recommended to read in this connection a letter from a professional contemporary of this individual--one who comes to us with unquestionable claims to our respect, inasmuch as he appears to have had some care for _the future_, and some object in living beyond that of promoting his own immediate private interests and sensuous gratification.