Gilbert and Sullivan Ida" showed signs of flagging, Carte realised that, for the first time in the partnership's history, no new opera would be ready when the old one closed. On 22 March 1884, he gave Gilbert and Sullivan contractual notice that a new opera would be required in six months' time. In the meantime, when "Ida" closed, Carte produced a revival of "The Sorcerer". The most successful of the Savoy Operas was "The Mikado" (1885), which made fun of English bureaucracy, thinly disguised by a Japanese setting. Gilbert initially proposed a story for a new opera about a magic lozenge that would
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City "Daily Mail". Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City is a 2012 book by British author, academic and journalist, Catharine Arnold. The book is a 'colourful, gruesome' history of crime and punishment in London. The book also examines the influence of the 'criminal classes in on literature' and examines the Soho gangs of the 1950s and 60's. In the "Daily Telegraph" Lilian Pizzichini described the book as 'a chronological account of theft, murder and riot, and the concurrent methods of restraining the population in the capital' and noted that