Charles Kemble dined here yesterday, and in the evening read to us his daughter Fanny's Tragedy of _Francis the First_--a very wonderful production for so young a girl.

There is considerable vigour in many parts of this work, and several passages in it reminded me of the old dramatists.

The character of "Louisa of Savoy" is forcibly drawn--wonderfully so, indeed, when considered as the production of so youthful a person.

The constant association with minds deeply imbued with a love of the old writers, must have greatly influenced the taste of Miss Kemble.
_Francis the First_ bears irrefragable evidence that her reading has lain much among the old poets, and that Shakspeare is one of her most favourite ones.

"Triboulet," the king's jester, may be instanced as an example of this; and "Margaret of Valois" furnishes another.