There is much cleverness about a farce produced at the
Lyceum, and called Done on Both Sides; but there is also a great amount of mistake. The notion of a family aiming at an appearance beyond their means, be- coming "snobs" in the Titmarsh sense of the word, and only succeeding in getting for their daughter the hand of an imposter who has duped them in return, is a good one; and the exhibition of the straits to which the fa- mily are reduced to keep up a false splendour is for a time amusing. But the piece is long for its subject, and without progress in its plot; so that the manifestations of poverty which strike at first have after a while the appearance of a needless repetition. The piece, on this acoount, would not have gone so well as it did had not Buckstone put forth all his extravagant drollery, in the person of a rich but low-bred cousin of the family, who is made against his will to pass for their servant, and whose honest vulgar indignation is well contrasted with the smooth humbug of his relatives.
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