For the most important dramatic event of the week we
must look to the dormitory of Westminster School, where the Eunuchus of Terence has been played with more than usual spirit. A commonplace compliment which is often paid to the young amateurs—that they would put to shame many professional actors—is mere nonsense ; for they lack that stage-de- portment which belongs to the very grammar of histrionic art. The interest arising from their performance, apart from that which springs from the association of ideas, is occasioned by their thorough knowledge of every line of their author, and the manifestation of juvenile acuteness in hitting upon distinctions of character. We admire the conception rather than the execution, and are at the same time pleased by observing that the labour of every artist is a labour of love. The Epilogue, which is always the exciting portion of a Westminster evening, represents Thais as a propa- gandist of Bloomerism. This Transatlantic tendency causes her to lose all her admirers, and involves her in a street-row, which leads to the inter- ference of the police.
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