Hold -your Tongue, a new Lyceum piece by Mr. Manche,
is very ar- tistically done. This, like The Trumpeter's Wedding, is probably " taken from the French "; but Mr. Planche has so completely given his drama the tone of the last century in Englind,' and the miss en' scene is so perfect, that 'without any historical allusion,-there is exactly that local colouring which we miss in the Haymarket piece. A country fine lady who half compromises herself bygoing clandestinely to it Masquerade, a seductive lord-who endeavours to take advantage of her position, and a dashing town lady who helps her ont.of 'the scrape, are the constituents of a story whielisthough , slight is exceedingly Well contrived. Excepting in bur- lesque% Madame Vestris has lately appeared but seldom on the stage; and there was sometbing exhilarating in ter:impersonation of the- lively lady of fashion. .Mr. Charles Mathews, constly and confident, • was- the complete representatien of- the fashionable libertine of the last century. The piece. is one of those which exactly suit the atmosphere of the Lyceum, and can be pesihtnied effectively at no other theatre.
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