_Chorus._ Yes, you've got to arrive at a formula."

Difficult though my task may be I feel it the duty of friendship to
attempt to give the public some faint outline of this fascinating and
curious work. Scenarios, _dramatis personæ_ and choruses had evidently
caused the author inordinate trouble, for at the top of one sheet I
find:--

"ACT I.

_Interior of a coal-mine. Groups of colliers with lanterns and picks (?
tongs). Enter Chorus of female consumers._"

Then follows this note:--

"_MEM. Can one dance in coal-mine? Look up COAL
in 'Ency. Brit.' Also CELLAR FLAP_;"

and later on, at the end of a passage which evidently described the
dresses of the principal female characters introduced, we have the
words:--

"_BRITANNIA. ? jumper, bobbed hair.
ANARCHY. ? red tights_."

Nothing in this Act survives in a legible form, but in Act II. we are
slightly more fortunate:--

"SCENE.--_Downing Street_ (it begins). _Enter mixed Chorus of
private secretaries, female shorthand writers and