move the boy so as to elude the count, and gets
possession of the key of an enchanted place on which the boy is chained.
She gets him down from it--the clock is seen just near the stroke of
one--she resolves to push the hand forward--Hardyknute seizes and is
about despatching her, when Leolyn with difficulty mounts to the clock,
pushes forward the hand and it strikes one--the demon appears, seizes
the count in his claws--the earth opens, and the demon carries him down,
in the same manner that an alligator or shark carries down a puppy dog,
to devour him in comfort.

Such is the piece, and such the depravity of a nation's taste. It is no
wonder that the tasteful, the learned and the judicious, should wage an
open war of wit and satire upon such things. On this subject we refer
our readers to a piece signed THEOBALDUS SECUNDUS, which will appear in
our next number.

SECOND WEEK.

_November 29._ RECONCILIATION, OR FRATERNAL DISCORD, _with_ FALSE AND
TRUE.

It would be superfluous to say any thing of a play so well known and so
justly admired.

_December 1._ ABAELLINO, OR THE GREAT BANDIT, _with the_ LADY OF THE
ROCK.

The Great Bandit is one of those extraordinary productions which
distinguish the present dramatic writers of Germany from those of all
ages and all countries. There are but few topics connected with the
stage which deserve more serious discussion than this of the German
drama. A proper investigation of it would require more room than we can
at present spare: but we shall not so far desert our duty as to decline
it when we can devote to it the deliberation it deserves. A future, and
not far distant number will contain such reflections as occur to us on
the subject.

_December 2._ ROAD TO RUIN--DON JUAN.

Mr. Wood in _Harry Dornton_ was very successful. It is a line of acting
for which he is well calculated. The character of _Goldfinch_ was better
performed by Mr. Jefferson than it could be in any other person in this
theatre. But we received less pleasure from it than from any other we
have seen him play, _Scout_ excepted.

_FARCES FOR THIS WEEK._

The Wood Demon, though used as an after-piece, demanded observation of a
more serious kind than is due to farce, and has therefore received it in
pages 71 and 72.

The farce of "False and True" is a wretched thing. To speak
Johnsonically it is a congeries of inexplicable nonsense. An Irishman,
who, after having committed the _very probable_