The Adelphi produced this week a dramatic version of is
strange story that appeared in Blackwood's Magazine some time ago. A country squire, who had never in his life before been further from his home than a fox-chase had carried him, is brought up to London, by some money afiltir ; and there not only robbed, but committed for trial on a charge of murder. Being released from prison, he is put on board a yacht ; sails to the Mediterranean ; is taken by pirates, and sold to the Turks; is made a Paella, and escapes bastinado and the bow-string only by waking from the dream in which all these adventures had hap- pened to him. Had Rseve been the hero instead of Mucus:sox, the piece might have been popular, from the absurdities of some of the situations : but as it was, the audience grew impatient of them before they found out that it was only a dream dramatized.
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