16 JANUARY 1864, page 11

Much Ado About Nothing-.

N o more appropriate motto could be suggested for the great Shakespeare movement than the title of that play which records the wisdom of Dogberry and the profundity of Verges.......

Slobbering Loyalty.

T HE wonderful clumsiness exhibited by most Englishmen in the management of a pageant is not, perhaps, hard to ex- plain A class essentially untheatric is set to do theatric......