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with great applaufe at the theatre of her 
Imperial Majefty. In refpeét to fome 
points, it equals our Tom Thumb, in 
pomt of éathos : 
Je venois vous remettre 
Un papier, un billet, ou je crois une lettre. 
Une lettre! du Comte ? 
Peut-etre exige-t-elle une réponfe prompte. 
‘¢ Anaximandre, ou le Sacrifice,” &c. 
—Anaximander, or the Sacrifice to the 
Graces, a comedy, m one att, in verles of 
ten fyllables, &c. 
This charming after-piece was origi- 
nally written by M. Andrieux, a member 
of the Intitute, and firft reprefented in 
3782, atthe Italiantheatre. It has been 
fince revifed, and reprefented at the French 
theatre, where it was received with an un- 
common degree of applaufe. The author 
has made the application of the teftamene 
of Eudamidas to the philofopher Anax- 
imander. This philofopher pretends that 
his friend had bequeathed him his two 
daughters, whom he was to portion and 
mary. The fage, in the courfe of a 
fhort time, becomes enraptured with one 
of them himfelf, but his negligence of 
drefs, and roughnefs of manners, inftead 
of infpiring the heart of Afpafia with 
efteens, rather fills it with difguit. Means 
while her fitter Phrofine, who gueffes at 
the fituation of the guardian, gives him 
fome good advice. Among-other things, 
fhe conjures him to foften the afperities of 
his temper, and to be more careful of his 
drefs, while the herfelf infifts on giving 
him a leffon in dancing, during which he 
is furprifed by Afpafra. But Melidorus 
appeafes the philof‘opher, by announcing 
an oracle of Venus, that promifes to ren- 
der him agreeable to Afpafia if he would 
but facrifice to the Graces. Anaximan- 
der immediately obeys, and returns from 
their temple fo changed, both in refpect to 
Janguage and drefs, that his ward no 
longer recognizes him. His gallantry at 
jJength fucceeds; he efpoufes the young 
damfei, and beftows at the fame time the 
hand of her &fter Phrofne on Melidorus. 
*¢ Gulifian, ou le Hullade Samarcande,”’ 
&c.—Gulifian, or the Hulla of Samar- 
cande, a comic opera, in three aéts. — 
This fory, which is to be found in the 
Arabian Nights Entertainment, has been 
often introduced on the French ftage, bat 
always hitherto in the form of a farce, 
and under theaproteétion of Harlequin. 
‘The author of Gulifian, however, has 
imagined, that it ought to be reprefented 
ina more refpeétable manner, and he has 
accordingly ipared no pains to beftow on 
Retrofpeet of French Literature.—Drama. 
it all tee pomp and grandeur of /pefaclé. 
The plot is founded on alaw, by whicha 
Muffulman who bas repudiated his own 
wife, and withes to take ber beck, is. in- 
terdicted from doing fo until after fhe had 
efpoufed another man, wich whom the was 
bound to pafs at leaft one nigat. Taher, 
who is exactly in this fituation, chooles 
for Hulla, or Houilah, an unfortunate 
ftranger, entirely deititute of houfe and 
home, whe promifes, for a few fequens, 
to deliver up his wife to him next day. 
But it fo happens, that this female is pre- 
cifely the perfon whom Guliftam has long 
loved, and from whom he had been fepa- 
rated by accident. He therefore refules 
to furrender her, according to promife, and 
the modes he recurs to for recraiting his 
exhaufted finances, form the fubject of 
the prelent drama.’ 
The author, without any feruple, has, 
on this occafion, united the Greek mytho~ 
thology with the ceremonies of the Muf- 
fulmen: but the mufic, by Dalyrac, is 
excellent. 
‘© Le Grand-Pére.’—The 
father. 
This after-piece, in which a young Cz- 
far of fifteen, jut come from college, puts 
on an uniform for, the fire time, and plays 
the lover, was only faved from condem- 
nation by the good acting of Madame Le- 
fage. The mulic, which ts by Jadin, oc- 
calioned no fenfation what{cever. ’ 
‘* Le Portraits Infideles.’°— The un= 
faithful Portraits. 
An uncle defirous to marry his niece, 
fends her portrait to a young man in the 
country, to whom he withes her to be 
efpoufed, and gives orders that it fhall be- 
painted uglier than the original, The in- 
tended bridegroom, on the other hand, 
tranfmits his cwn in retuin, with all the 
flaitery of the artift lavithed upon it. 
Wien the meeting takes place, the lover 
in his provincial drefs appears aukward 
and difagreeable, while the Parifian, 
decked out according to the neweft fafhions 
of the capital, feems more than tolerable. 
The parterre, which an{wers to our pitt, 
after a patient hearing, d d the picce. 
“* Madmoifelle Gauffin.”’ 
Boutet, a rich financier, in a moment 
devoted folely to love, prefented Made- 
moifelle Gauffin with a blank bénd, 
which had his name figned at the bottom, 
with an injuntion to make any ufe of it 
when fhe pleafed. Wifhing, however, te 
marry and fetile in life foon after, he recol- 
leéted the facal inftrument, and becomes 
dreadfully alarmed left the young actrefg 
fhould either &U it up with a large fum 
of 
Grande- 
