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admirably suited for children's acting. But why does Miss Jackson

shrink from making Cinderella's sisters mutilate their

feet in order to get them into the glass slipper ? That is a rose-waterish literary proceeding which children will hardly appreciate, though it was adopted in the otherwise very suc- cessful pantomime at the Lyceum. " His Own Ambassador" is a capital little farce.