_Aristophanes on the Modern Stage_ (Vol. iii., pp. 105. 250.).--Finding
that no correspondent of yours, in answer to a Query which appeared some
time back, viz.: "Whether any play of Aristophanes had ever been adapted
to the modern stage," has yet mentioned the only two instances of which
I am aware, I beg to refer the Querist to the _Plaideurs_ of Racine (an
adaptation of the _Wasps_), and to a very ingenious modernisation of the
_Birds_ by Mr. Planché, produced about four years since at the Haymarket
as an Easter piece, under its original title.
I cannot refrain from taking this opportunity of protesting, under your
justly powerful auspices, against the use of the word "Exposition" in
its French sense of _Exhibition_, now creeping into places where it
could scarcely have been expected.