All the newspapers—with one expec-joined in chorus of praise of pantomime; and the one ex ion has not unnaturally created a deeper impression than all the complimentary notices put together. It is not because that exception is the "Daily Mail," for although that journal has undoubtedly a far larger circulation than any other newspaper in England it does not follow 2 influence upon opinion is the test. But pretty nearly everybody that in this the " Daily! Mail"—or rather Mr. E. H. Cooper, "the novelist and writer of boys' stories, who signed the "Daily Mail" notice with his name in full—has told the truth. He says in effect that the " White Cat" is gorgeous, that the ballots are admi but that throughout vulgarity to a large take the place of wit, and that the management is justified in offering such a performance for the delectation of adults they have no right to call it pantomime.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.