12 FEBRUARY 1848, Page 11

The glory of putting a piece well upon the stage

has likewise been gamed at the Marylebone Theatre. Mr. Knowles's Wrecker's Daughter, long laid upon the shelf, is after all a vain attempt to exalt a common melodrama of the old school into a play of the higher order by means of elevated language. The coarse material is never subdued, and one is re- minded of those earthly souls in Platonism who when separated from the body are doomed to hover near their graves. Mrs. Warner, who acted the chief character when the play was originally brought out at Drury Lane, has, however, made it a good vehicle for scenic effect. A "rolling sea" in the second act, and a "set scene" of a church in the last, are as good as anything that has been seen at this well-managed theatre.