"--AUGUSTUS DRURIOLANUS and his
colleague in the authorship of the new piece at the National Theatre
are to be congratulated. As might have been anticipated from the
title, "there is money in it."
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VOCES POPULI.
AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM.
IN THE SCULPTURE GALLERIES.
_Sightseers discovered drifting languidly along in a state of
depression, only tempered by the occasional exercise of the right of
every free-born Briton to criticise whenever he fails to understand.
The general tone is that of faintly amused and patronising
superiority._
[Illustration: Refused Admittance.]
_A Burly Sightseer, with a red face_ (_inspecting group representing
"Mithras Sacrificing a Bull"_). H'm; that may be MITHRAS's notion o'
making a clean job of it, but it ain't _mine_!
_A Woman_ (_examining a fragment from base of sculptured column with
a puzzled expression, as she reads the inscription_). "Lower portion
of female figure--probably a Bacchante." Well, how they know who it's
intended for, when there ain't more than a bit of her skirt left,
beats _me_!
_Her Companion_. Oh, I s'pose they've got to put a name to it of
_some_ sort.
_An Intelligent Artisan_ (_out for the day with his Fiancee--reading
from pedestal_). "Part of a group of As-Astrala--no,
As_traga_--lizontes"--that's what _they_ are, yer see.
_Fiancee_. But who _were_ they?
_The I.A._ Well, I can't tell yer--not for certain; but I expect they
'd be the people who in'abited Astragalizontia.
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