25 SEPTEMBER 1880, Page 23

Uncle Grumpy, and Other Plays. By Robert St. John Corbet.

(Samuel Tinsley.)—Mr. Corbet enumerates the merits of his plays (meant for " juvenile actors and actresses ") upon the title-page. They are " abort, original, easily learnt, easily acted, easily mounted pieces." We have read four or five of them, and regret that we cannot add any praise to that which the author has bestowed on them. There is not a sparkle, or but only the faintest and rarest sparkle, of fun in them. For all that, they may well amuse an audience determined to be amused, as most well-behaved drawing- room audiences are.