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 years; during which it has been "exhibited to crowded houses"—namely, coffee-houses, reading-rooms, etc.—with unabated interest.

The outline of this drama, or series of dramas, may be thus sketched:

And from this point we start afresh, and begin the same business over again, with sundry fresh interludes.

All this is highly amusing to the English public to hear and read of; but I doubt whether our countrymen would like to be actual performers in such a drama.

Whether the French really are so, or whether they are mystifying us in the accounts they send over, I will not presume to decide. But if the former supposition be the true