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SELFISH man in the world can be more competent than yourself to do this; but I don't conceive the mode exactly of exhibiting the the--the differences of conception and manner!"-"I'll tell you, Sir," rejoined the critic, "I mean to show your very different deportment and utterance in the Garden Scene; the Garden Scene itself is decisive of the whole business Barry comes into it, Sir, as a great Lord, swaggering about his love, and talking so loud, that, by G-, Sir, if we don't suppose the servants of the Capulet family almost dead with sleep, they must have come out, and tossed the fellow in a blanket."_" To be sure," said Garrick. " Well, Sir, having fixed the attention of my auditors to this part, then, I shall ask them-"But how does Garrick act this?' Why, Sir, sensible that the family of the Capulets are at enmity with him, and all his house, ke comes in creeping upon his toes, whispering his love, and cautiously looking about him, just like a thief in the night." At this unlucky illustration, Garrick could hold no longer. He thanked Macklin for his good intentions, but begged he would decline his purpose; "it might seem invidious to poor Barry; and besides, after all, was it not a question better left to the decision of an audience in the theatre, than to become the subject of a lecture, however able the Professor?" That Macklin enjoyed this, I knov, for he used to tell the BOWDEN. SELFISh. Like the too many frequenters of the Theatre, whose pre- possession and partiality for the old school, they consider the 19