30 APRIL 1853, Page 10

Of all the departments of histrionic art, that in which

we are least deficient is the department of low comedy,—as the names of Keeley, Buekstone, Compton, Harley, can testify. But Fortune now sends her coals to Newcastle, and we have one talent more in the person of Mr. Robson of the Olympic; who has achieved a great success in a bur- lesque of the tragedy of Macbeth. If this little gentleman has worldly wisdom in addition to histrionic talent, there is reason to believe he will make some figure in his profession. We have been done to death with burlesques, and have had several distinct fits of weariness at hearing every tragical or fanciful subject discussed in the language of those very limited beings the "men about town " ; but there is such a mine of gro- tesque embellishment and such evidence of original conception in Mr. Robson that we are willing for his sake to endure Lady Macbeth singing " Toore1 looral" in her sleep, and to see a travestied murder, with bloody daggers in the hands of the funny assuaging. Nor is the burlesque itself devoid of merit. The peculiarities of the Princess's Macbeth are imitated with a great deal of humour ; and Mr. Talfourd's dialogue is replete with such genuine wit, that we hope to meet him on higher ground than is afforded by burlesquing Shakspere and Euripides.