PARISIAN TILRATRICALS.
The passage of a subject from the shelves of the library to the boards of the theatre seems to be the order of the day in France. We recorded very recently the fact that M. (Madame) George Sand had adapted his (her) novel of Hauprat for the Odeon; and now we find M. Lamartine's Gene- vieve finding its way to the Vaudeville, where MM. Decourcelle and Jaime fils have dressed it up with the title of Les Orphelines de Valneige. A young lady, whose sister commits a faux pas, and who in the midst of a scandalous village takes all the discredit of the agair upon her own shoulders, is certainly an interesting heroine for domestic drama ; and, no doubt, Mademoiselle Page, famed for the expressive power of her eyes, stands as the most finished ideal of persecuted innocence. The London audience have a good specimen of the talents of the two French dramatists in The Bachelor of Arts, now played at the Lyceum. We mention this extraneous fact because Eng- lish playgoers are in the habit of remaining in somewhat ungrateful ig- norance with respect to the authors to whom they are mainly indebted for their theatrical amusements.
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