PARISIAN Tnranucer.s.
M. Auguste Vacquerie, celebrated as an author, whose works belong to the eccentricities of literature, has taken the Parisian public somewhat by surprise, with an elegant little comedy, written after the classic mo- del in two acts of elegant verse. The plot is of the simplest. Beppo, the lover of a haughty and obdurate Marchioness, who treats him with distain, adopts the old plan of using jealousy as an expedient for kindling a tenderer passion, and pays court to an unsophisticated little soul, named Lydia. TheMarchioness is indeed, moved, but the affair takes an unexpected turn, for Beppo becomes seriously enamoured of Lydia, and making her his wife, leaves his former idol in the lurch. Souvent Som- me Vatic is the appropriate title of this pretty dramatic idy11,—to which full justice is done by the company of the Theatre Franew. At the Varietes there is a lax little Vaudeville, by MM. A. Bourgeois and Labiche, entitled L'Ecole des Arthur—" Arthur" being the generic name given to the favoured lovers of young ladies of doubtful reputation. An old gentleman about to bestow the hand of his daughter on a promising swain, discovers that the latter is the " Arthur " of a certain danscuse. He is not greatly shocked at the discovery, but insists that the liaison shall be broken off. " Arthur" will not comply, and the irascible old gentleman not only refuses to accept him for a son-in-law, but confidently asserts that he will never get a wife at all, backing his opinion by an offer to wager one hundred francs, which " Arthur ' ac- cepts and marries his mistress. The wedded pair are very unhappy, " Arthur " writhing under the incumbrance of a wife, who is not re- ceived in good society, and Mimi regretting the professional trium. of former days. Both, therefore, are equally delighted by the revelation of a flaw in their marriage-contract, which dissolves all legal tie between them, but no sooner are they free, than they love each other more than ever.
The manager of the Odeon has departed from his usual course by the production of a drama of the Boulevard school, written by MM. Amedee Rolland and Charles Bataille, and called Un Usurier de Tillage. The plot is frightful enough. A man in the employ of a rustic carpen- ter, with whom he has quarrelled, is induced by the evil counsels of an old villain, the village usurer, to contrive that his master shall fall from a scaffold and break his neck. He then marries the widow of the de- ceased, and conducts himself respectably, but his crime is discovered by the carpenter's son, who insists that he shall kill himself by taking a leap from the very spot whence his victim fell in former days. With wondrous docility, he complies with this reasonable request, but not
he has signed a written declaration of the complicity of the bad adviser.
On an analysis of the complicated crimes and adventures that take place in a new drama by MM. F. Dug= and Jaime filth entitled La Mk de Tintoret, and produced at the Ambigu-Comique, we shall not venture. The wicked hero of the tale is old indecent Pietro Aretino, who is the persecuting fiend of a young artin, and concludes an atrocious career by murdering a girl who proves to be his own daughter. The lovers of me- lodrama congratulate themselves that here they have a work of the geed old school, full of incidents, and all of them strong.
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