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... . (1) kencydopedia 'Britanica. The contents of volume nineteen are as varied and interesting as those of any of the preceding as issues. Not to speak of what, for want of a dii better word, maybe called the padding of in' the- book, the titles of the hundred iarticles P are quite conclusive on this point, Were it st, pefrnissible to adopt the length of of.article an as-the measure of its ...

... ,I 'MUSIC AN~D -TAB DRAMA. 7SnOM OUR SPISRIAL CcenESPOWNDIT.) London, Sunday Night. It is not strange that the latest work by one D of the foremost of living dramatists, played by the greatest of French actresses, should have attracted to the Graiety last night an audience thoroughly representative of the rank, the intellect, the wealth, and the fashion of the |day. Fabulous prices had been ...