THE BALLET.
THE splendid ballet of last season, Beniowshi, has been substituted for the picturesque one of Le Brigand de Terracina ; principally for the purpose of exhibiting HiRMINIE ELSLER in the part in which ST. ROMAIN acted rind danced so charmingly. The comparison was not to the advantage of ELSLER, whose bold vivacity is not well suited to the character of the heroine: she is not an interesting pantomimist, and her dancing of the Crucovienne bad more of energy and agility than grace and lightness. DUVERNAT danced the Cachoueu on this occa- sion; and enraptured the house with her inimitable grace and pliancy of movement, and her joyous animation of action and look in that cha- racteristic and beautiful dance. The intricate series of involutions in the attitudes which her elegant form successively assumes—her upper and lower limbs winding about with lithe elasticity and the most brilliant precision- -and the crisp chatter of the castanets marking the time.—prodticed an effect that is impossible to describe. This is really " the poetry of motion "—of a voluptuous kind, it must be admitted, but offensive only to prudish people of foul imaginations.
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