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At the Adelphi, even the appearance of burlesque has been

shunned: The story,- whieh . the ratifilfillS would cell- Lei Amour s chi :Diable, and which has • alreadY furnieherl' themes for an opera and a 'ballet, has been modified into a legend of Number Eiji. A. contest between the celestial and infernal agencies of modern belief, though always delightful in Paris, where something like a_theatrica/ representation of the Day.sif. Judginent is produced at least once a year, is never greatly relished ey,srg when_it is tolerated in Landon: Hence the eenversion of awful angels and fiends

into harmless sylphs and gnomes. . •. :