AustLit

Buggins comments on the Treason Felony Act before turning his attention to the colonial tour of the Scottish actor James R. Anderson. Buggins reflects on various performances by Anderson in Victoria and New South Wales before stating plainly: 'Mr. Anderson, there is nothing like the truth, however hard the truth may sometimes be – you were a failure in the colonies, – a failure, as dead as a nail in a pauper's coffin'.

Dion Boucicault's Colleen Bawn; or, The Brides of Garryowen was produced at the Royal Victoria Theatre in the week preceding Buggins's article. Buggins writes in some detail about Bouciault's shortcomings as both a playwright and a theatre lessee.

Finally, there are some general comments about recent theatrical productions in Sydney together with a note that the Prince of Wales Opera House has been 'elegantly redecorated' and 'the old Lyceum Theatre has undergone complete metamorphose, and was opened last Tuesday under the title of the "Varieties"'.