Paris, Febroary 17.
M. Edmond Rostand's mach discussed " Chantecler" has at Inst seen the light at the Porte St. Martin Thea tre; and the jon is still going on. A minority thinks it is the finest piece of work M, Rostand has ever given to the world, the majority cannot understand why " poet who can ascend to heights of lyrical beauty should condescend to puns and quips, The fect is that " Chantecler"" is a bold experiment, which none but " great post could have attempted with any chance of success. find sri; resembling' Chantecler must go back to Shakespeare' summer Night's Dream," that M. Rostand's mixture of poetry and baffoonery is quite as far retrieved '8 Shakespeare's, from the ridicaloun is to pay only a deserved tribute to the French poet's powers. All that be has delivered through the mouths bat there is no 1nd n0 disposition on the part of the spectator to laugh Gnitry attired an a cock and Mme. Simone as a hen-There is no action worth mention The piece is neither pheasant,
drama nos a comedy. Perhaps the bert classification for it would be as a poetic legory.
Obanteoler, the cock, is fully per-sounded that his mission is to make the world go round, and the sun rises in obedience to his morning clarion. A doll daybreak is the result, be thinks, of his having crowed badly; in other words, he is the typical artist to whom everything outside his own work is comparatively unimportant. He is large-sloted, generous, fall of lofty idiee and intolerant of little meannesses. the farmyard over which he reigns are
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