Foreign advices tell us, that the French piece from which
a thing called Two Owls in One Ivy-bush, is taken was highly relished in Paris. Either the English version produced at the Lyceum is a very bad representation of the French original, or a point is discovered on which French and English tastes widely differ. The theme of mental absence is worked to such a de- gree in this hapless little production, that it consists of nothing more than the trifling mistakes of two old men similarly afflicted with this malady. The audience soon became weary of a series of practical jokes, all on the principle of the extinguishment of the candle by Dominic Sampson's hat; and failure could not be more complete. The revival of the Merry Wives of Windsor, with the whole strength of the Lyceum company, is a success.
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