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A short dramatic tale, in which some new adventures of the celebrated Messrs. Box and Cox are set forth, is the successful novelty at the Hay- market Box and Cox are, as the bills inform us, now supposed to be "married and settled" • and the dramatic happiness of Cox receives a transient interruption trough the suspicion that too great an intimacy has existed between Mrs. Cox and Box. However, the cloud blows over, and the friendship of the modern Orestes and Pylades is more firmly ce- mented than ever. Those little circumstances of dramatic discomfort which particularly delight a London audience are plentifully intro- duced; and who could refrain from laughter when Mesdames Box and Cox fall out at breakfast, and Mr. Cox gets into a street row on the sub- ect of an umbrella? Much as the Englishman reveres the domestic hearth, he is never more amused than when he sees it converted into a field of battle:; -and a contest sharply carried on, before a background of muffins, crumpets, and coffee-pots, while hints are thrown out of the ex- istence of foreign powers, such as cab-drivers and omnibus-conductors, never fails to create delight Where a campaign of the sort is conducted by such able generals as Messrs. Buckstone and Keeley, who are now trained to a perpetual gladiatorial warfare,—just as Ravel and Grassot have been trained at the Palais Royal,—the infallible expedients of mirth are rendered more infallible still, like the decrees of a Pope sanctioned by an (Ecumenical Council.
Another Haymarket farce, called The Wonsan I Adore, we merely mention for the sake of keeping our record complete. AU the approved fun of Bucksttine could not infuse life into such a vapid production ; and, being coldly received on the first night, it has already reached the third place in the bills—which at the Haymarket is anything but a post of honour.
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