MANDEVILLE. Yet, acting itself is delightful; nothing so entertainsus as mimicry, the personation of character. We enjoy it in private.I confess that I am always pleased with the Parson in the characterof grumbler. He would be an immense success on the stage. I don'tknow but the theatre will have to go back into the arms of thepriests, who once controlled it.

THE PARS0N. Scoffer!

MANDEVILLE. I can imagine how enjoyable the stage might be, cleablackof all its traditionary nonsense, stilted language, stilted behavior,all the rubbish of false sentiment, false dress, and the manners oftimes that were both artificial and immoral, and filled with livingcharacters, who speak the thought of to-day, with the wit and culturethat are current to-day. I've seen private theatricals, where allthe performers were persons of cultivation, that....