"CHERRIES, CORN, AND CRITICISM." A correspondent, who thus heads his
communication, demurs to the justness of our objection to the introduction of corn-fields yellow for the harvest as a background to the scene of Gertrude's Cherries. He says—" 11 have recently returned from a long tour in Germany and Belgium, where I have partaken of cherries gathered from the tree around which the scithe or sickle was in full operation." Messrs. GRIEVE, the clever scene-painters of Covent Garden Theatre,are thusjustified in "La Belle Alliance" of cherries and corn at Waterloo. But, without caring to stickle for the correctness of a hypercritical remark, we may be allowed to observe that the harvest was "very early" this year, both on the Continent and in England ; and to quote the reply of a Continental tourist to our inquiry whether he had ever eaten cherries at harvest-time in Belgium—" Yes, Morellas."
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