Julius Casar has been reproduced this week at Covent Garden,
with a very efficient cast of the principal characters, and creditable com- pleteness of stage effect. MACREADV personated Brutus, VANDEN- HOFF Cassius, CHARLES KEMBLE Mark Antony, H. WALLACK Casa:, and G. BENNETT Julius Ciesar. MAEREADY'S Brutus, though defi- cient in grandeur, is elevated by his intellectual feeling to a moral dig- nity, which the classic grace of his attitudes sets off with appropriate elegance. The simple earnestness of his declamation gives impressive effect to the address of Brutus to the people after the death of Caesar. The quarrel with Cassius is managed with consummate skill on the part of' MACREADY indeed it is well acted on both sides. VANDEN- HOFF seems too robust for "the lean and hungry Cassius ;" but he plays the part with vigour and freedom. C. KEMDLE'S Mark Antony has not the fervour and energy of his younger day, though he looks the Roman almost as well as ever. H. WALLACE'S Casa is coarse as well as blunt and homely; and G. BENNETT resembles Cesar only in his bald head. Miss FAUCIT ought to have played Portia instead of Mrs. W. WEST, who should have taken the part of Calphurnia. We hope Miss FAucre does not think Portia beneath her, little as there is to do?
The costumes are coned; and the architectural scenes, though dingy —being the same, we believe, that were used in JOHN KEMHLE'S time
—are in good taste, and preserve the classic keeping of the stage pic- tures. The procession of Cxsar to the Forum, and the scene in the Senate-house, transport us to Rome and the time of the Republic. The tragedy has been played twice this week, to overflowing houses,. and will doubtless continue to attract.
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