Excerpt from The New Grand Opera, in Three Acts, of the Bohemian Girl: First Performed in America at the Park Theatre, November, 1844

The production of the Bonemss girl. Last season, in London, produced a sensa tion never before experienced in that great metropolis. It became at once immensely popular, and was repeated for upwards of one hundred nights, to crowded and brilliant audiences. The elite of society honored the theatre with their presence, and the public became so delighted with the music, that it was played, and sung, in every drawing room and street in London.

The libretto is by Bunn, the music by Balfe; a composer comparatively unknown in America, although ranking amongst the first of the first class in Europe, The story is closely adapted from the admirable ballet of the tsey. Which was produced at the Park Theatre about three years ago. The author of the piece has wisely transferred the scene from Scotland to Hungary; Scotia is too familiar to us, besides 9 s longittqtto image's placate. The story of M. M. Do St. George's and Mazzilier, selected the time of Charles the 2d - the author of the present drama has taken a corresponding period in the history of Poland. Thaddeus, (the name, no doubt, suggested by Mrs. Porter's novel is an exiled Polo, who, to screen himself from his pursuers, joins a band of Gipsies. And subsequently ingratiates himself into a certain Count's favor by saving his beloved child from the fury of a hunted stag. This child, in the w ry moment of thanksgiving for her safety, is, out of revenge, stolen by one of the Gipsies, Dcvelsbooj; and thus ends Act the First;-which contains several morceanz written in the composer's happiest mood.

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