Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, July 13, 1895 (Illustrated)

Monday.—Quite new Opera, Faust. Some people say they've heard it before. Others add, "Yes, and more than once this season." Unwritten law in Codex Druriolanum is "You can't have too much of a good thing." There are a hundred different ways of dressing chicken; so with Faust. This time Faust comes and is Faust served with Sauce Marguerite à l'Emma Eames. Uncommonly good. Faust lui-même à l'Alvarez goes down uncommonly well. Mefisto-Plançon Sauce au bon diable, a little overdone, perhaps, but decidedly a popular dish. Baton of Bevignani keeps all the ingredients well stirred up. House full.

Tuesday.—Carmen. Madame Bellincioni and Signor Ancona going strong. Capital house, spite of shadow of dissolution being over us all.

Wednesday.—Nozze di Figaro, with Emma Eames as Countess, singing charmingly, and looking like portrait of Court Beauty by Sir Peter Lely. Maurel-Almaviva all right for voice, but not up to his Countess in aristocratic appearance. However, this is in keeping with character of nobleman whose most intimate friend is his barber, and who makes love to the barber's fiancée, who is also his wife's femme de chambre.