Last night, Madame Ristori played her third character,—Pia del Tolo-
mei in a tragedy of that name, written by one Signor Marano, on the well-known passage from the " Purgatorio ' of Dante :
— " To son.la Pia:
Sienna nil fe, disfecemi Maremma," &c. The lady is taken to the Maremma of Sienna by a jealous husband, that she may die of the pestilential air; and die she does. The piece is at once feeble and revolting; but the details of mortal sickness have become failaidnable of late, and probably Madame Ristori thinks she has as much right to die of malaria as Mademoiselle Rachel to expire slowly of poison in Adrienne Leeouvreur, Madame Doche to go through the stages of consumption in La .Datne aux Canielias, or Piceolomini to render the phthisical into song in La Traviata. As a specimen of ultra-realism, nothing can surpass this last exhibition of the physically morbid—at least we hope so.
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