The drama of Vietorine, which delighted the play goers of London
five- and-twenty years ago, has been revived at its original theatre, the Adel- phi, with a success that fully proves its evergreen nature. Neither Mr. Webster nor Madame Celeste takes any part in the performance, but the piece is nevertheless most efficiently cast ; while the acting of Mrs. Leigh Murray in the character formerly played by Mrs. Yates shows that Lon- don has long been in possession of an actrese.of whose merits it was but slightly aware. Let the Adelphi to itself be true,—that is to say, not deviate into "legitimacy," or high comedy, or quiet pictures of manners, Or any other heresy, but stick to the real " Adelphi drama,"—and its popularity is certain. The rule of conduct isnot hard to learn, since that which pleased five-and-twenty years ago is found equally pleasing now.
'We just mention the fact that a new farce, entitled How's your Uncle? 'has been brought out at the same house. It is a sort of Cockney idyl,-- &tale of love and inconstancy in a respectable London court,—almost too puerile for even n laatrical entremet
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