The ingenious little piece Le Chevalier des Dames produced at
the Palais Royal upwards of three years since, and afterwards played at the St. James's, during the engagement of M. Ravel, who was the original "Chevalier," has been translated by Mr. J. M. Morton, and brought out at the Haymarket, with Mr. Buckstone in the place of M. Ravel. Of course the chief amusement is created by the popular comedian's delineation of that eccentric gentleman who is a sen- timentalized repetition of the more familiar "Monsieur qui suit les femmes"; but the admirable skill with which the plot is con- trived is well worth the attention of all who have a. feeling for dramatic art, as distinguished from mere poetry or mere jest. The vicissitudes of a certain box, in which a bundle of dangerous letters is contained, are worthy of an old Oriental novelist. We do not believe there is one living Briton who could display such ingenuity in the construction of such a trifle. Yet MM. Marc Michel and Labiche, the authors of Le Cheva- lier des _Dames, seem to throw off such pleasantries by the dozen in each succeeding year.
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