It is a matter of surprise that Mrs. Stirling, who
has now been engaged for a considerable time at the Haymarket Theatre, should be so little brought forward. In working out the details of those clever fine ladies who are the heroines of a certain class of French vaudevilles, and of the English pieces taken therefrom, she shows a delicacy and variety-not to be approached by any actress on the stage. If it had not been for her exquisite finesse, a new piece, called A Novel _Expedient, in which a wife, to drive her husband's friend out of the house, adopts the violent plan of making love to him, would have been scarcely endurable, not- withstanding the neatness of the writing. Nor is Mrs. Stirling's talent confined to this lighter order of impersonation; she is quite as capable of giving force to the " drama " of absorbing interest, as of giving neatness to the "petite comedic " ; and a piece of the sort would agreeably vary the Haymarket bills.
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