CASIMIR DELAVIGNE

, The Mésscnùnnes of tliis élégant poet hâve supplied us with a choice fragment on the subject of enslaved Greece. M. Delavigne was equally distinguished as a dramatic writer. His tragédies les Vêpres Siciliennes (1819), Marina Faliero (1829), Louis XI. (1832), les Enfants (V Edouard (1833), combine ail the excellence of the most beautiful style with an amount of boldness to which the strict admirers of Racine had not accustomed us.