The other novelties of the week are more numerous than
remarkable.
The Wrong Box, at the Olympic a farce in a courtly atmosphere; the hero of which, played byMr. A. Olympic, is gets into a scrape by accidentally boxing the ears of a little Grand Duke of Ferrara, played by Miss P. Horton. In this the older habitues of St. James's may recognize [Inc Nuit aux Soujlets. The farce at the Princess's called A Storm in a Tea- cup, fully justifies its name ; being simply the exhibition of a domestic squabble about nothing, carried on with much spirit by Mr. and Mrs. W. Lacy. Wanted a She-Wolf, at the Lyceum, is an adaptation of Romulus, the new petite comedie by M. Alexandre Dumas, which we mentioned on the occasion of its production at the Francais, but which seems to thrive leas vigorously on British than on Gallic soil. Why the position of the Liebnitzian philosopher Wolf, who is forced to make love half against his will, should be found more amusing by the Parisians than by the London- ers, is a question that may furnish the subject of a paper for the Ethnolo- gical Society. We can hardly suppose that the difference arises from a great familiarity with the works of Liebnitz on the part of the French.
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