6 JANUARY 1866, Page 21

PANTOMIMES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In reply to your question iu the Spectator of 30th ult., " Do nineteenth-century children so much enjoy seeing four fools knock each other about ?" I beg to say that I, for one, not only do not enjoy, but so absolutely hate it, that I have for that reason this very day refused an invitation to go and see Aladdin at Covent Garden. Do, Sir, do all you can to make them let us children have the prettiness of the transformation scenes without the vulgarity and wearisomeness of the harlequinade.—I am, Sir,