, 1875-01-03

which had hltherto escaped tho dTamatlsE aud
the tragic poet, It is that OF woman who kills
her enemy, returns to finish him. and cannot
help coming to his assistance when he feebly
asks for water. The whole feminine character is
there III irs sudden oTolutlous OF hate aud OF
love. La Rochefoucauld said, "rhere is no hato
in woman which is not born Of Lore" This fine
ecene, which transported tie house at critical
moment when the play was about to be ship
wrecked. wns in danger of turning into farce,
because 4 faDroche murmured, That is drotl;
thers is Loah giving water to La Fontaine." But
tho situation was too fine not to gain the en-
'thusiastlc applause Of che public. Tragedies
which fail through comic word arc tragedies
made according to the rules Of the Abbc d.
Aubignec. One Who does not offend against
rules has no tragic genius. Grammar is made
for schoolboys. Every gifted man has his own
grammar.
You hare heard that all Paris ia to be seen 1t
first representations, but this is incorrect. There
is little more than tho Paris OF art and literature
This is by no means tho upper ten Thousand"
When was young. Mile. Rachel, who ruled the
the French Theatre. gave there u hundred
new plays. ! therefore had an opportunity Of
studying the fanatcal habitues OF first represen-
tatious. I soon saw that, with the exception Of
score Of celebrities and dozen ladies OF So
ciety, the house belonged by the nature OF things
to criticism and Its ladies'. There wore plenty Of
marriages OF the Twenty-frst District, from
which you must not infer that tho women we're
especially pretty On the contrary, one could
not help asking hos these men whose trade it
is to DO clever, and who must have passed
through the Temple Of Taste Of Montesquien,
should have chosen companions so ugly. Cue
thinks of the speech OF the husband who sur
prised 1ansuiahing lover at the knees OF his
wife, who was monstrously ugly: "Ah, Mon
sieur, and to think that you were not Obliged TO
do It,"
do not mean by that that 3[essieurs the Crit
les, Ordinary and extraordinary, all have mon
sters in their boxes. know more than ono who
hides away there in the shadow. and under
fan. pretty woman. But. after all. criticism III
general does not lore beauty perhaps because it
docs not love genius, possibly also because it is
not handsome itself. But it has its consultations
in thinking Of Socrates and Aantlppe.
At second representations, on the other
hand, in al tie respectable theatres, you
Tags a1e = festival OF the eyes for the
spectators. Great numbers OF fashionable
women are there, in toilets which contrast
strongly with those Of the night before, without
counting tho diamonds which the travelling
companions " OF criticism have not. Notwitl,-
standing, ut tho first evening OF " La Haine
the fashionable people had made an invasion.
under the pretext that the piece would run only
one night. It will run 500. Beside tue Princess
A1athilde was the. Princess of Sa1e-Cobnrg-
box opposite reigred in his omuipotence King
OGenbach, surrounded bv his family and friends.
The Imperial box could not be better filled.
Madame Offenbach has tho head Of an Empress.
The middle box was occupied by another
Italian tie granddaughter of Lucien Bona.
parte. By turns Princess Of Eolms and
Citizen Rattazzi now the loyeliest widow
of the tno worlds, dazzling with
vic and diamonds. She had with her = young
blide, Madone de Mollnari, who has just mar
ried the editor-in-chief of the Debats.
Comedy Of comedies, all is comedy, moro or
less serious. M. Jules Simon was telling this
evening at Ii. Thiers' how Lord Ripon had
passed, with arms and baggage, over to the
enemy. The enemy is the Church, according to
heir-apparent OF the Cro~n Of Great Britain, the
Prince Of Wales, to call him by his name, ac-
ceptlng the position OF Grand Iaster Of Free
Masops in Great Britain. When ne mako step
rear. II. jules Simon does not love the Church
remember, at the funeral OF the gallant Henri
Regnaalt, that ray OF sunshine Which
has survived death. when they were
taking up collection in ths Church Of
S. augustine n: Jules 8 simon; nt ~ "ho M aa was
took out 6ye-franc pleca but when no heard
the sexton, q man with mustache like drum
major, CRYING in q deep bass voice, For the ex-
peuses Of the Church, II you please" he care
though it bore tho efHgy Of Napoleon the Third.
There has been, these last few days, q battle
of courteay between AadaIae Jules simon anu
Madame Rattazzi. These two ladies both more
or less worldly and more OF less blue-stocklng,
receive on Thursdays. NOW, as they receive
very nearly the same people, and as they
live 5 miles apart,-the one at her dear
fifth story In the Place do 10 Madeleine,
tha other in the magnificent Hotel OF the
Duke OF Aqnila, Avenue del lmperatrice'-t
placed their guests on tho rack, because they
could not dine twice. even It dinner we're served
in the frat house at and IN the second at =:
Madame Rattazzi has therefore surrendered. 1t
is On SUNDAYS hereafter that al parties rlll dine
With her-M. Ordinalre beside u. Caro!us
Duran, II. de Lacretello beside ii. De Bona.
partc. Madame Rattazz IL Ike that Senator OF
the Empire who said, ~ not only understand
all opinions, but share them+
It is tho most hospitable house in Pans.
instance. Madame Rattazzi invites twelye per
sons to dinner, and fifty come. This is no
fable. Even to-day che swore to me that
We would De t"elVe. "e we're 1orty-
niue ~ saeu ;a e.tIv ;ba
snnorior of the Widow of Scarron. Tho aubsti-
tuted story for the roast The pretty Princess
performs every Snndsy toe miracle OF the multi