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 Rossini?

Aye, there is another enchanter. But I mean the great enchanter of Covent Garden: he who, for more than a quarter of a century, has produced two pantomimes a year, to the delight of children of all ages; including myself at all ages. That is the enchanter for me. I am for the pantomimes. All the northern enchanter's romances put together, would not furnish materials for half the southern enchanter's pantomimes.

Surely you do not class literature with pantomime?

In these cases, I do. They are both one, with a slight difference. The one is the literature of pantomime, the other is the