14 OCTOBER 1848, Page 11

A wretched play founded on the Bride of Lammermuir, and

performed at the Marylebone Theatre, is well worth seeing, on account of the acting of the American lady Mrs. Mowatt. In her delineation of the tragic posi- tion in which the heroine is placed by the return of her ill-used lover, there are touches of real histrionic genius.