ACTING—­ON A SUGGESTION.—­The Woman, always well informed, tells us on February 26, that, “owing to numerous applications,” Mr. C.T.  GREIN is negotiating for the Royalty Theatre, in order to give another Ibsenian performance.  Now this is exactly what we suggested in our number for February 14.  If the date suits, we will go and see Ghosts, and, if we succeed in keeping up our spirits after seeing Ghosts, we will give a candid opinion on the performance of the piece which hitherto we know only in print. En attendant, we shall have something to say about the recent performance of that piece of Ibsenity A Doll’s House—­in our next.

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WHAT’S IN A NAME?—­On the recent occasion of the QUEEN’s visit to Portsmouth, no one of the officials seems to have been more on the alert and more generally alive than Mr. DEADMAN, the Chief Constructor of the Yard.

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“EN ITERUM CRISPINUS!”—­Hamlet on the real distinction between Theatres and Music Halls—­

    “To B. (and S.) or not to B. (and S.) that is the question!”

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HAPPY PROSPECT.—­The Wild Birds, if the Bill for their protection becomes law, will remember, the Session of 1891 as a year of PEASE and Quiet.

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