1 AUGUST 1874, Page 3

We are happy to see that Mr. Edward F. S.

Pigott has been made the new Examiner of Plays. He has been an accomplished and brilltant journalist, and will know, as well as any one could, how to draw the line between legitimate satire and the grossness of licence ; and certainly his bias on a doubtful case will always be towards non-intervention. We could wish, for once, that it were an Examiner's function to breathe a little life into the dull and flat compositions he is expected to revise and pass. In that case, we might now look forward to an improvement in the calibre of the meaningless comedies and burlesques which seem to take more and more with the public every day.