SIR HENRY IRVING'S Saturday night at home previous to his
departure for America was brilliant. House so crowded in every part,
that the like of it has rarely been seen even at the Lyceum. Our
ELLEN, as charming _Nance Oldfield_, was cheered to the Echo,
or would have been had there been any place left for an Echo in the
house. Sir HENRY admirable as the old soldier in _A Story of
Waterloo_, and both he and Miss TERRY at their best in the
one scene from grand old WILLY SHAKSPEARE'S _Much Ado about
Nothing_. The "Much Adoo," as Mr. WELLER senior would have
pronounced and spelt it, came after the curtain had fallen, and on both
sides the "Adoo" was changed into a hearty "_Au revoir!_"
To mention "HENRY" is to remember "JOHNNIE," _the_
Johnnie yclept J. L. TOOLE, who, _Mr. Punch_ was delighted to
see, looking "fit as a fiddle," having Toole'd up to town from Margate
evidently on the high road to perfect recovery.
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