ABSTRACT
An entertainment more distinguished for novelty and interest, more happily composed of fable, incident, dialogue, music, dancing, and pantomime, and more decidedly sanctioned by the approbation of an audience, has not for a long period been produced on the English stage. The author, Mr. Holcroft, is indebted, for the subject, to the French school, and the original Seline; or The Maid of Savoy, has been received at Paris with universal plaudits by overflowing houses. The Drame of the French stage, was first introduced by the celebrated La Chaussee, who, by intertwining the tragic and the comic in the same production, and selecting for his muse subjects of domestic misfortune, was the author of that new specie of composition in France, called La Comedie Mixte; on Drame.
