PARISIAN THEATRICALS.
The literary veteran, M. Viennet has lately manifested his existence by a. drama in one act, produced at the Odeon. It is called kialona, the action takes place in the Crimea, shortly before the siege of Sebas- topol. Selma, the wife of Nadir, a Tatar chief, who has joined the army of the Czar, consoles herself during the absence of her belo red husband by taking care of a child, called Iambi. When Nadir returns, certain gloomy suspicions on the subject of this child are awakened in his bosom by Fatale, an early flame, whom he has forsaken on account of Selma, and who is therefore bent on vengeance. That she is the mother of Ismael Selma is forced to confess, but she is not therefore cul- pable, as the child is the result af one of those outrages that are but too common in countries harassed by war. Who was Ismael's father neither she nor any one else can tell, save Nadir, who, falling on his knees, con- fesses that he was the culprit, though he had not recognized his wife as his victim.
At the Gal* the dismal tale of a man who deserts his wife for the sake of a rapacious lorette is told in seven (!) acts, by MM. Brisbarre and E. Nue, who call their lengthy work Les Ménages de Paris.
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