The great Parisian blunder La Crarine has been committed (anew
at the St. James's Theatre ; where M. Scribe's wearisome work is entitled The Northern Star, as if to give it a sort of identity with his elder bant- ling the libretto of L'Etoile du Nord. Even the great acting of Made- moiselle Rachel could not make La Czarine go down with the Parisian public ; and what can we expect from a company that does not give ex- pression to a single sentiment or force to a single situation ?
This sort of unmeaning exhibition takes place at the most Western end of the town, while at the extreme East, at a theatre in Shoreditch called the "Standard," Shakspere's Antony and Cleopatra is got up with elabo- rate magnificence, and with Miss Glyn in the principal character. Where we should expect to find the most fastidious audience tho entertainment . consists of the humblest fare, while for the coarser stomach there is a repast fit for an epicure. Mr. Douglas Jerrold might reconstruct his novel of " St. James's and St. Giles's" with a new tendency.
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