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154 very improving; and perhaps the tage is the only place where ridicule is ueful.

What I have aid is certainly only applicable to thoe who go to ee the play, and not to hew themelves and wate time. The mot inignificant amuement will afford intruction to thinking minds, and the mot rational will be lot on a vacant one.

Remarks on the actors are frequently very tireome. It is a fashionable topic, and a thread-bare one; it requires great abilities, and a knowledge of nature, to be a petent