Aensa's sprightly and pleasant opera, Fra Diavolo, has been played
this week at the St. James's, with undiminished effect. We need not say sword about BRAHANI'S Brigand. Miss RAINFORTH makes an interesting Zerlina : she acts the character with modest simplicity, and gives the music very finely. BENNETT, as Lorenzo, sings in a chaste and expres- sive style. Miss STANLEY is an excellent Lady Allcash ; but BAR- NETT's Lord Allcash is not one of his hits.
Delicate Attentions, a new farce, was produced here on Thursday. It is a stage version, by POOLE, of a humorous story of his that ap- peared in one of the Magazines a short time ago. It seems to be the "ssllon for authors to give their fancies a narrative form first, and dra- matize them after. The hero, Mr. Gingerly, is an old bachelor des- perately in love with a gill of eighteen ; be endeavours to win her regard by a series of such very "delicate attentions " that the fair object of them overlooks the real bestower, and attributes them to the person from whom they would be most welcome—a dandy lawyer's clerk. Poor Gingerly finds, to his utter discomfiture, that he has been uncon- sciously aiding the success of his rival, by his "delicate attentions." STRICKLAND'S personation of the love-lorn old bachelor, Mr. Gin- gerly, is a rich piece of drollery, without being a caricature. PARRY as the booby coxcomb, Miss ALLISON as the sentimental young lady, and indeed all the other performers, were amusing.
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