The Daily Chronicle bus concluded the sittings of its Court of Enquiry into the bona fides vf M. de Rougemont, and has returned a verdict of "not proven." The effect, of course, lias been to give a splendid advertisement to the ndventurer, who has just announced a series of lectures on his inareellous experiences. But although. the sittings of the Court in. the Chronicle office are over, the columns of that journal are still filled with correspondence on the subject; and it must be confessed that the result has been to cast very serious doubt on much f the traveller's story. It is, of course, difficult to prove a negative; but it is remarkable that no corroboration has come where corroboration might reasonably be expected.
THE THEATRES, There have been two interesting revivals and one notable production at the London theatres this week. The revivals are The Sorcerer at the Savoy and Macbeth at the Lyceum, and the now production—new at least_so far_as London is concerned—i3 The Elder Miss Blossom, in which Mr. and Mrs. Kendal make their reappearance after a long absence from the metropolis. This play, which is the work of Messrs. Ernest Hendrie and Metcalfe Wood, is a very pretty and dramatic love story, in which Madge Robertson acts with all' her old charm and power. The Sorcerer, the first of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas except the trifle Trial by Jury, which is now revived with iF. yoes on as merrily as ever and proves that the Gilbertian humour is not the least bit out of date in London.
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