New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-10-21

choice, the inebriate cseri Il made happy. snd Tue
wicked lawyer goes Cd the stage red In tho NO.
sometinee vowing rePet tanoe, ard sometimes inyok
ing curses. Everybody disgorges Whist he has wrong
fully swallowed and the curtain falls upon the triumph
Of the good and honest and honorable and upon the
discontinue Ct the bad and base and ungenerous The
orchestral fddles then strike up in merry key and
w 20 to our humble and happy home. refreshed sni
strengthened.
Mr.. Tom. Taylor has given just this kind Of play
There is the baronet distressed and the midshipnsu
and the daughter, and the lawyer, and tie lawyers
clerk with the inebis,e propensities. The baronet
lives on q manor. The baronet is hari-up for cash,
having spert more than he could afford in ways repu
table. The baronet il in tight fix Mr.. Coyie, tho
attorney. car get him out Of it. but Mr. Coyis wants
to marry the baronets daughter as rccompenss for
his magnanimity. The baronet consents, IS 81 osro-
nets do under the circumstances. The lawyer would
undoubtedly have led the lady to the altar in tears
and orange blossoms. had not Yankee in.erfered.
Mr. Taylors Yankee is Ike az stage Yankees,
An odd, queer, quaint creature, never. by any
possibility seer without the walls of theaer Mr..
Taylors Yankee has met somewhere in America
with the brother OF the baronet. The brother
of tie baronet has retired in inexplcabe but
intense disgust from England, and settling in Vermont,
has loft all bis property to Mr.. Taylors Yankee, who
comes to England to handle the cash. Mr.. Taylors
Yankee makes love TO the daughter Of his testament
airy benefactor, who has been most wrongfuly disiu
berited burns the will, and, in copjuucton with the
inebfa,e clerk seeks to put the impoverished baronet
upon bis legs again. He is put upon his legs. The
virtuous roa is rescued from the stone jug. The Yam
kee marries the nece, who is found Of course manu-
featuring butter in humble life. The bsronet sheds
tears Of JOY. having saved both his estate and hs
daughter The discounted lawyer goes OF the stage
with an air plainly Indicative Of tco-e-se. The ms,
b,ia,e clerk is made agent in his stead. The Yankee
is broadly and funnily exultant- Happiness smiles
upon ALL including the short boronet who il, oy the
turn of affair, put into funds again
Such s Mr. Tom Taylors play. AZ we listened to it
we forgot, in the contemplation Of much virtue ri
umphsnt and of 50 much vice discounted, the great
battle of bone and muscle, the rumors of which
40 agitatipg the city Mr. jefferson played the Live
Yankee exceedingly WELL and did great deal for the
success Of the piece. The nebnate clerk was well
enough represented by MIR. Couldock aud Miss Keene
was respectable daughter of respectable bsronet in
distress. The other characters well enough pre-
sented and the stage business went on smoothly.
We have seldom seen more agreeable play of the
kind Without being at all novel in construction re-
markable in plot, eicitous in language, or striking in
development, it is very good domestic mclodrams,
and quite worthy OF Mr.. Tom Taylor's genius Those
who go to see it may be sure Of entertainment and the
Ost tod need not fear of dilating at the wrong emo
ton. 1t will be easy to know when to laugh and when
to cry and 70 can those who are fond OF tears
aud of smiles, that the grns and the groans are pre-
sented in due proportions The management has evil
IDENTIFY taken great pains in the production, and "Our
American Cousin" ia safe play to go to and to see.