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 near to actual life and feeling. In the scene between Calista and her parent, she, in great agitation, exclaimed, "That is no acting, heavenly God, that is natural." In the last scene her interest was wound up to the highest pitch. When Calista is frantic, poor Collings was frantic also; when Calista died, Collings gave one shriek, and became lifeless in her lover's arms. With much difficulty she recovered her consciousness, but not her perfect recollection, and gazing eagerly in our hero's face, and pressing him to her arms, she said, "You are not Lothario, I was undone by myself." At length entirely recovering the use of her reason, and becoming sensible that she had exposed herself, she was extremely distressed, and begged immediately to retire, and was conducted home to a lodging which Hamilton had provided in his neighbourhood. There she was taken