 "The Times" wrote, "Mr. W. S. Gilbert, however, shows in his last work, as in "La Vivandière", which is still attractive at the new Queen's Theatre, that he is fastidious on the score of music, and consequently anxious to make the theatre, even when employed for the purposes of burlesque, as little as possible the reflex of the music-hall....But altogether the endeavour of the author to stop short of an extreme popularity, and to give to burlesque something like a tone of distinction, is evident throughout.