23 DECEMBER 1854, Page 13

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The last novelty before Christmas is an exceedingly tiny translation from the French, called My Wife's Journal. A young wife keeps a jour- nal, and finds her husband's intimate friend too attentive. The husband peeps into the journal, and discovers the design of the friend in time to prevent mischief. He discovers, moreover, another journal kept by the friend's wife, touching on mysterious relations between that lady and a certain male cousin. As the friend gets possession of the first journal, and the husband has secured the second, the two parties can read the

crow-quill records to each other ; and thus a fire of journalism is kept up, which ends in the triumph of virtue and the discomfiture of vice; sud- denly refreshing us with a moral, in the midst of an anything-but-moral atmosphere. The three characters are creditably played by Mr. Emery, Mr. Leslie, and Miss Maskill ; and as the piece is too short to be tedious, it answers the same purpose as those little vaudevilles wherewith Mr. Mitchell used to commence an evening's entertainment at the St. James's Theatre.