THE TWO LANDS OF GOLD.
An entertainment belonging to the same class as Mr. Albert Smith's Mont Blanc has been commenced, under this title, at the Marionette Theatre. The subject, as the name implies, is California and Australia, and Mr. Harry Lee Carter is its exponent. Narrative, joke, song, music, and personation, illustrate, in unflagging succession, the shifting scenes of a diorama ; whose crudity, it must be confessed, stands in need of some such aid to acceptance. Mr. Carter knows part of the journey to which he invites his audience, and has authority for the rest. His substance is not unfrequently amusing—his manner emphatic. We have witnessed many a worse evening's entertainment ; at the same time, we found it too funny for its length, or too long for its fun. The comicalitics of Califor- nia, which come first, exhausted our power of receptivity in that line.
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