Volume 102 — ANOTHER SHAKSPEARE!
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Mysterious!
The last play by M. BLAGUE VAN DER BOSCH has just been translated into English. It is called The Blackbeetle, and is a purely domestic drama. The following Scene from the last Act will give some idea of the exquisite simplicity and pathos of this great work. M. VAN DER BOSCH's admirers freely assert that SHAKSPEARE never wrote anything like this. It will be noticed that M. VAN DER BOSCH, like M. MAETERLINCK, does not always name his characters, but only mentions their relation to each other.
SCENE XXV.—The Great Grandmother, the Mother-in-law, the Female First Cousin one remove, and the Brother-in-law's Aunt are discovered standing on the table, and the Half-sister's Nephew by marriage on a chair.
The Mother-in-law. Eh? eh? eh?
The Female First Cousin one remove (pointing to Half-sister's Nephew by marriage). He! he! he!
The Great Grandmother. Ay! ay! ay!
The Half-sister's Nephew by marriage (shuddering). Oh! oh! oh!
The Brother-in-law's Aunt (to him). You! you! you! [The Half-sister's Nephew by marriage descends and resolutely steps upon the Blackbeetle. Curtain.
ENTÊTEMENT BRITANNIQUE.
RONDEAU.
Mal à la tête, ennui, migraine, We risk in trying to explain Why, though the Income-tax is high, This country never can supply Such galleries as line the Seine. Yet gifts are treated with disdain, Which gives the would-be donors pain,— We've now a name to call that by, "Mal à la TATE." Next time an offer's made in vain MACNEILL, or someone, will obtain, Or ask, at least, the reason why, And even dumber folks will cry, "By Jove! they've made a mull again, MULL à la TATE!"