At the Princess's, a new farce, called Away with Melancholy,
by Mr. J. M. Morton, has been produced. It is founded upon a French piece called Ern Homme entre Deux Airs, brought out at the Palais Royal in the course of last summer ; and the adapter, though he has chosen for his transmuting process a subject more than ordinarily slight, has dis- played all that talent for giving to Parisian produce a thoroughly English look, which distinguishes him from the rest of the adapting frater- nity. After all, what a living productive thing is French ingenuity ! A gen- tleman agrees that a certain air shall be the signal for his mistress to come forward, and forgets it just at the critical moment. Nothing can be more tiny than such a basis; but it is large enough for three (!) lively Parisians to raise upon it, by their combined efforts, a whole edifice of strange in- cidents, of which Away with Melancholy is the result.
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