The Westminster Play seems once more in the ascendant. The
customary three performances were given last week, the ildelphi being the play selected for the year. They were witnessed, as usual, by numbers of distinguished Old Westminster% and the applause on the delivery of all the time-honoured " points " was as energetic as ever. As the acting followed in every respect the old traditional standard, there is little room for criticism. It is only by force of tradition that the Westminster Play still exists, and the associations of the locale are no less potent in sustaining the interest with which it is witnessed. The prologue alluded in the usual tone of unqualified eulogy to the late Lord Lansdowne and Professor Cockerell, both educated at Westminster. The epilogue was a brief farce, in which the recent amusing eineute in the Common Council as to the ultimate destination of certain articles ordered for the royal entertainment is rendered by no means more amusing by being done into elegiac verse.
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