The dance programme at Tuesday's Caldedonian Ball was notable for one omission and one inclusion. Sir Roger de Coverley makes a rare appearance, but the Lancers are gone, for the first time, if we are not mistaken, since they first became popular. One wonders whether they are really unpopular now or merely unfashionable. Last year, we are nearly sure, they were danced at the Caledonian Ball and by all appearances were vastly enjoyed. If they are now driven from their last strong: hold, they will soon be hardly even a name. Yet they were a pretty dance, gave variety to the programme and were welcome—for more reasons than it might be diplomatic to mention in print. One wonders whether some of the older dances are not being unnecessarily crowded out. The valse, for instance, comes comparatively rarely now in any programme: Yet, when it does, it certainly appears to be encored far more vigorously than its newer rivals. And after all is there any dance which for grace and infinite variety can compare with it?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.