"Iolanthe seems to have attained in New York only a partial success. this one may gather by striking the average between the opinions of two critics in the same paper, one being lavish in his praise of the new opera, the other stigmatizing it as "a bitter disappointment." A probable reason for this discrepancy is that the enraptured one occupied a warm, comfortable seat, while he of the bitter disappointment had to stand in a cold draught. Be this as it may, Iolanthe has not met with the cordial reception extended to its predecessors. Drawbacks to its success are the institutions and delusions which are as caviare to the American public. What does the average New Yorker know of the House of Lords? The Lord Chancellor is to him an unreal thing, and Seven Dials, Chancery Lane, Drury Lane and Belgrave Square are only meaningless names. One would imagine that the libretto had been written with no idea of its production in Transatlantic theatres."