Incidentally he was engaged to _Eric's_ sister, but abandoned her
without a qualm for the beringed hand of one _Mrs. Meldrum_, a rich
widow, known as The B.Q. (Biscuit Queen). Need I say that _Mrs.
Meldrum_, moving in these circles, and with ambitions as an art
patroness, lived in Cheyne Walk? Indeed the setting of the whole
comedy is inevitably Chelsea. Having regard to the number of bad hats
among the _dramatis personae_, you will probably not be astonished to
be told that their goings-on are excellently entertaining; though
I cannot but think that to give both his leading lady and his
_soubrette_, or Singing Chambermaid, the handicap of morally deficient
young brothers, does look like laziness on the part of Mr. CAINE.
Surely there exist other avenues to calamity. But it's an amusing
rogues' comedy.
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[Illustration: UNPUBLISHED INCIDENTS IN ANCIENT HISTORY. PANOPEUS
EXPLAINS HIS MODEL AT THE WAR OFFICE, ATHENS, DURING THE TROJAN WAR.]
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FOR THE SAVING OF CHILD-LIFE.
Mr. G.K. CHESTERTON will lecture on "How Dickens' tales came true," on
Friday, December 14th, at 3 o'clock, at 20, Arlington Street (kindly
lent by the Marchioness of Salisbury), in aid of the Kentish Town Day
Nursery. Tickets, L1 1s. 0d., 10s. 6d., 7s. 6d., may be obtained from
Countess GREY, of Chester Street, N.W.1.
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