The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-15 00:00:00

FINE ART&

PCHIBITION or THE WOBXB OP T. PAWS
•

The gallery No. 5, Waterloo-Owe, is Dow Gra
with • collection et oil painter by the deserredly pagsder
sort. Mr. Thomas Peed. Thai stall gallery, riessally eo
wised by Mr. Barker's pietas of "The Belief of Lek-
sow," SWIMS to be pernisestly nosed by the Menem
Agee.. of Manchester, for it now bears the ram ei this
well-known pietruwaslies and print-pablialdng Arm It
is to their speculative enterprise, we believe, that we as
indebted for the present charming little =MIMS& Mr.
T. Feed is fortunate in having the principal weeks be bee
painted thus collectively brought before the public: while
biuma still ,ffy youag, It is, we bops, remaseahle le brut
that • tii,atir of only thirty-four may in all hems pear-
klity live to produce at least as many more and as delight-
ful works as are here rzhibltecL Although • Raphael was
earned off by fryer at thirty-eight, • Titian was sly
itched away by the plague at ninety .nine. We
Live hitherto only bad • collective exhibitkm
at our 7rincipal painters' works altar their deesees, bat lb
is far r,,irc desirable to pay this homes to the geisha
while living, and thus afford these • righthil patilastira,
and sive them, ask will doebeleas la We tale, • /tai la-
motive to exertion.

DRAMA.

DEIILT•LANE 711ZATTIL

The success at Mr. Watts Phillips's last dramatic
production, The Deed Heart, ma so great and so honed as
to place its author in the first rank of she proot-day
Tutors for the step, and to camps his next essay to be
looked for with considerable intereat. That wog has now
Derr made, and if we mumt say that The &Ivy of the
"1,5," now playing at Dretsy-Les, is es pod • working
sielodrame as its uesa•dhite prsdersasw, it is am* bemuse
Ilr Phillips has ma hew as ferlansfes ia the chain of hie
suhjoct ; his dialogs* is ma pod, or perhaps hoar than
O•Cr. and with the exospios of the first act, which is weak,
his plot-000etruction is gloss sad rigorous.
. .

is the greet fault of the play that it is devoid of female
interest, as Isabel is slimiest a ameatity, and Hise 11I'Llsod so
alight a .Latch as to cause one to wonder why the author
introdnoed it. The first ~de moves somewhat wearily, sad
bough the mond brightens, it is with action unconnected
fantil Joel before the drop falls, and Sir Aachen is disco.
wowed as Me masked spy) with the loading charts:ten of
the drum. The third act is very fine, and played es it is
with artistic intalligesos, spirit, and fidelity by Mr.
Webster, it rouses the anthem* to vest withulesmn.
laded, Mr. Wideter's acting throughout is worth the
stady lad observaace of all lovers of the dream ; it abounds
is cootrasts, in light end shade, end is finished sad pebehed
the highs.: degree. H. well supported, tee, by Mr.
llcLein, who is earnest, quiet, and gentlemanly, and Mr.
Bellool, who rightly preesses the magli, halfravege
Highlander. Mr. Took bee oleo token • peat stride is
advance, by his representatioa of the seeekiag spy Beech
Blacker. which is so thoughtfully concaved sad so arbor.
badly worked out, dove to Ihe minutest details, se to lead
to a belief that this gentlemuis powers are of • higher range
Mao lie has hitherto given evidence of.
Taken altogether the piece is eatirely rusiesdal., and
will doubtless prove very attisctive. The scenery by lir.
Beverley, notably one moonlight with Boating clouds, is the
mole beautiful we have ever ms.

OLYMPIC.

1, Feu an Convent, a pretty little Vaudeville, of
sweet production in Paris, has less name WierMAW
Is* this theatre, under the title How hr the Hehhilege.
It is a piece af the Liras Tresseire bad, showing bow a gag
widower kept. that he has 6 daurhter at school, Ida
ladder ie s lays* style of living, which her wades Mats
hawse for the holidays pets a atop to. Het Wes:4i= tor
his, bar tender solicitade dunes Ide show% whiffs, askaowe
I. her, be is seppd la figlitieg a dug, red the sew pure
asigatione et phrase which be expatiation in bee society,
lead him to reflect with shame ea his past Ida and to hope
Is* future happiness with his daughter. All the weight of
limn p.eoe falls os Mies Louise Keeley, who plays with
extesonlisary verve and vivacity, sod whom little well-rne.
liaised touch of pathos proved the versatility of ha- genius.