PARISIAN THF.ATRICALS.
M. Alphonse Karr has made his debit as a dramatist by turning one of his own novels into a five-act play, which is now performed at the Theatre du Vaudeville. As the majority of English readers are probably unacquainted with La Penelope Normande, it may be expedient to state that the Norman lady resembles her classical prototype in the single particular, that her husband is abroad. In the absence of this worthy gentleman she fills up her time by forming a lieison with a worthless roué, whom she does not love, and then becomes seriously enamoured of a very estimable youth. The difficulty of this position is showed on the stage in a very straightforward manner The worthless roue kills in a duel the estimable youth, and the injured husband comes home in time to do as much for the worthless roué, and to load his wife with impreca- tions. In the novel he also disfigures the faithless lady by flinging vitriol in her face, while he himself expires ; but-this incident lsai been doomed too strong for the dnuna.
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