Mr. PINERO is temporarily Ibsenised. "_What will become of them?_" should have been the sub-title, if not the single title, of his new play at the "C. C. C.," or COMYNS CARR'S Comedy Theatre. Instead of "_What will become of them?_" Mr. PINERO calls it _The Benefit of the Doubt_, which is supposed to be a quotation from the Judge's summing up in the Divorce Court in the case of _Allingham_ v. _Allingham_. _Mrs. Allingham_ has sued for a divorce in consequence of her husband's misconduct with _Mrs. Fraser_; the misconduct was not proved, but the Judge was so severe on the conduct of _Mrs. Fraser_ that there is for her, as far as her husband, friends, family, and Society generally are concerned, no benefit whatever to be obtained from the existence of the doubt in question. Such is the cheerful subject Mr. PINERO, in Ibsenitish vein, has chosen, and he has written a series of dramatic scenes artistically developing his characters by the most natural dialogue possible, but not, as it seems to me, by means either most natural, or most probable. The great situation of the piece is brought about by a gentleman (in the best sense of the word, as far as we can judge up to this point) permitting his infernally jealous wife--there is no other epithet for her except "infernally"--to conceal herself on purpose to overhear a conversation between himself and her supposed rival! Analogous situations in broad farce and farcical comedy are frequent and permissible: but surely not in a drama of real life. But then, I remind me, that this drama is Ibsenitish; which does make a difference. [Illustration: _Mr. P-n-ro_ (_making up after the portrait of Ibsen_). "Ah! I think I'm getting uncommonly like him."] The play is far too long, but it is admirably written and admirably acted. The dramatist intends most of his leading characters to be repulsively sordid, vulgar, and selfish, and those who are not so are amiable, but weak. The first heroine, perfectly played by Miss WINIFRID EMERY, is a fast member of a fast family as badly brought up as _La famille Benoîton_, the vain, frivolous mother being well portrayed by Miss LINDLEY; and the second heroine, admirably represented by Miss LILY HANBURY, is simply an odious, jealous shrew, and the prospect of happiness in a "place unmentionable to ears polite" would be more probable than any happiness for a husband with a wife like this. With neither heroine is sympathy possible. Another splendid comedy performance is that of Miss ROSE LECLERCQ, as the Bishop's wife, a character whose original is to be found in ANTHONY TROLLOPE'S _Barchester Towers_, from which I will quote a specimen passage, and ask those who have seen _The Benefit of the Doubt_ whether it does not sum up in brief Mr. PINERO'S characters of _Mrs. Cloys_ and her husband the Bishop:-- "What did you say about it, Bishop?" asks _Mrs. Proudie_ of her husband.