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THE KEEP LINE CLUB present inferior. However, I may fancy myself competent, from long experience, of conparatively expressing my opinion. Residing these last twelve years far distant from the scat of ainuseinents, lost to the "mirror up to nature”-eminent as those performers of the day; deprived as I have been of that gratification (free of the Theatres) when an evening seldom intervened that I was absent; recollection now is only left me of those bright stars that once shined: though I was young at the time, yet my memory has not failed me. Referring, first, to that great planet, Garrick- "A Garrick's excellence engaged his lays, And claimeλ the fairest wreath of critic praise." CHURCHILL I may venture to afirn from Lear to Abel Drugger, I have seen him in all his characters, to his final congé. Powell's Castalio, Barry's Romeo, Woodward's Bobadil, Mrs. Yates's Lady lacbetlı, Mrs. Crawford's Lady Randolph and Alicia, Mrs. Clive's Kitty, in High Life below Stairs. These I mention as seniors, previous to the many others that followed, who were the favourites of the day, eminent as they were, not forgetting King's Lord Ogilvie. I may never expect to " look on the like again." THE KEEP LINE CLUE. At the Keep Line Club, so often mentioned by Reynolds, in his "Life and Times," Fitzgerald, the patriot poet, so admirably shown up in the Rejected Addresses, made a very conspicnous figure. One of this gentleman's earliest pro- ductions was lis Prologue to Morton's Drama of Columbus, with wlhich, as with most other of his lucubrations, he was 20