Mr. Keeley, as a quietly-disposed gentleman, who is made to
safer be- cause his wife lets every part of the house to every description of foreigner on the strength of the Great Exhibition, and Mrs. Keeley, as the maid of all work, who shares in the suffering by virtue of her office, are the prin- cipal actors in a little piece produced at the Princess's, under the name of Apartments. All the nuisances arising from the assemblage of a crowd of outlandish individuals under one roof are rapidly presented to the eye; and the jokes, which are mostly of the practical kind, create much mirth. One joke, however, the author has not calculated upon, and that is the contrast between the crowded state of aparttncnts represented in his fic- tion and the numerous "lodgings to let" to be found in the actual me- tropolis.
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