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Our present example is pure tragedy of the most ambitious kind, and is, perhaps, a little in advance of the taste of a Music-hall audience of the present day. When the fusion between the Theatres and the Music Halls is complete -- when Miss Bessie Bellwood sings "_What Cheer, 'Ria? _" at the Lyceum, and Mr. Henry Irving gives his compressed version of _Hamlet_ at the Trocadero; when there is a general levelling-up of culture, and removal of prejudice -- then, and not till then, will this powerful little play meet with the appreciation which is its due. The main idea is suggested by the Misses Taylor's well-known poem, _The Pin_, though the dramatist has gone further than the poetess in working out the notion of Nemesis.
_A TRAGEDY._