that he possesses
abilities to support it better. It appears to us that this gentleman's
physical powers are sometimes subdued by an over-scrupulous chasteness.
In his answers to Elvira's solicitations on behalf of the unhappy
Alonzo, he did not, we think, sufficiently mark all the feeling and
emotions of the tyrant. Pizarro is stung with jealousy as well as rage;
not so much the jealousy of love as of infernal pride; but both rage and
jealousy are mastered by triumphant insolence and contempt. The
utterance therefore of his laconic decisive sentence, "He dies," should
be marked with a triumphant sneer as well as malice.

Mr. Warren did ample justice to the venerable Las Casas.

Mr. Cone who, though labouring under the disadvantages of a voice
radically, and we fear, incurably monotonous, gives promise of being a
useful actor, displayed considerable spirit in Alonzo. To the praise of
diligence and attention to his business Mr. C. is entitled, and those
rarely fail in any department to insure respectability and success. Mr.
Cone's personal appearance is very much in his favour.

The only part in the play on which we can justly bestow _unqualified_
applause was Mr. Jefferson's Orozimbo. It is seldom that criticism has
such a repast, a repast in which there was no fault but that of the poet
in making it too short.

Elvira is not one of the characters in which Mrs. Barret appears to
advantage.

Had Mrs. Wood the requisite talent of singing, we should have been much
pleased with her Cora. Certainly so far as that lady was able to go, we
know no person on this stage who could be substituted in her place with
advantage to the character. But the omission of Cora's exquisitely
beautiful, wild, and pathetic song, was a great drawback from the effect
of the part.

_December 21._--TOWN AND COUNTRY, by Morton--Village Lawyer. Some of the
British critics rank Mr. Morton with the farce-writers of the day,
others again pronounce his comedies to be the best which the age has
produced, and say that they will be selected by posterity from the
perishable trash of the day. We agree with neither, thinking it likely
they may remain for a _few_ years among the stock of acting plays. To
say that they will be admired by posterity is praise as hyperbolical and
unjust, as ranking them in farce is calumnious and untrue.

The comedy before us is a very pleasing production. The plot is well
imagined, and the author has contrived to condense