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By combining the Wraith of Scotland with the Vendetta of Corsica, MM. Orange and X. ge Montepin, some eighteen months ago, furnished the then Theatre Historique of Paris with a neat little dish of horror' called Les Fre'res Corse& One of two Corsican brothers being killed in a duel at Paris, the fact is conveyed by a wraith-process to the other brother at home ; who goes off post-haste to the French metropolis, and in a very ferocious combat kills the killer, to the obvious satisfaction of his brother's ghost, who rises at the conclusion. This story is a mere thread, to which are attached certain scenic effects, but these are of a most striking and novel kind. Mr. Charles Kean, who has brought out an English version of the piece at the Princess's, has thoroughly entered into the spirit of his subject ; and while his repre- sentation of the two brothers, who are not only sympathetically but his- trionically united, is the perfection of melodramatic acting, his manage- ment of the supernatural revelations belongs to the utmost refinement of terror. The stage is pervaded by a poetical atmosphere of ghostdom in which the shadowy tone is wonderfully preserved. King John and Corsican Brothers are both fine specimens of the art of presenting scenic tableaux' showing that the ingenious manager is equally at home in old baronial England and in Hades.
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