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Rh copied, while the more delicate touches are overlooked. That tart of Cordelia's, when her father ays, "I think that Lady is my daughter," has affected me beyond meaure, when I could unmoved hear Calita decribe the cave in which he would live "Until her tears had wahed her guilt away."

The principal characters are too frequently made to rie above human nature, or ink below it; and this occaions many fale concluions. The chief ue of dramatic performances hould be to teach us to dicriminate characters; but if we ret in ing