PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
M. Leon Laya has produced a three-act comedy, by which he warns the ladies who patronize the Theatre Francais, not to set their affections on literarygentlemen. The central character in the work is a young poet named Montfort, who, enthusiastic in his art, and ever contemplating the future fortunes of a comedy that he has just finished, neglects every domestic duty. At the conclusion he repents of his sins—which arc rather of omission than of commission ; but he is nevertheless happy in the prospect that -the comedy, which narrowly escaped destruction by fire at the hands of the neglected wife, will, after all, delight the Pari- sian public in the course of the ensuing winter. The title of the comedy (we mean M. Laya's, not M. Montfort's) is Les Pastimes d'Esprie. A short opera, called Le Sylphe, composed by M. Clapisson to words by M. St. Georges, and originally produced some three months since at Baden-Baden, has been brought out at the Opera Comique. The as- sumption of the character of a sylph by a gentleman of rank, who in this disguise watches.the actions of his wife, points to a well-known tale by Mannontel as the probable origin of the piece.
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