If there is, let him be brought forwardnot to be chucked out of the window, as Mrs. F.'s AUNT might suggest,but to be thanked and wondered at as an inchoate OFFENBACH, who might, under other circumstances, have written an American opera-bouffe, or, better still, as a possible CHOPIN, who might have written a second "March Funébre" as hopeless and desolate and fascinating as that of the despairing and poetic Pole.

It will be some time, let us hope, before the German players at the Fourteenth Street theatre give way to the shameless antics of French Opera-Bouffe buffoons.

Come to the Fourteenth Street theatre, not to look back regretfully at departed opera-bouffe, but to SEEBACH.

To-day he dines with opera-bouffe, To-morrow breakfasts with burlesque, And tights and tinsel, face to face, Encounters, pink and picturesque.

Needless to say, the whole opera-bouffe affair was promptly disavowed by the higher authorities.

" Were Joachim Greffs masters in our high schools and in the English chairs in our colleges, we might now and then catch a glimpse of precious things at present hidden away in never-opened store-houses, and see something done toward the development of a taste that should drive out the opera-bouffe.