AUDS HIM WHO DOES NOT
DESERVE PRAISE IS ENDEAVOURING TO DECEIVE THE PUBLIC; HE THAT HISSES IN
MALICE OR IN SPORT IS AN OPPRESSOR AND A ROBBER.[1]"

[Footnote 1: Johnson's Idler, No. 25.]

This work, therefore, will contain a regular journal of all, worthy of
notice, that passes in the theatre of Philadelphia, and an account of
each night's performances, accompanied with a critical analysis of the
play and after-piece, and remarks upon the merits of the actors. Nor
shall the management of the stage, in any particular, escape
observation. Thus the public will know what they owe to the manager and
to the leader of each department, and those again what they owe to the
public. To make THE MIRROR OF TASTE AND DRAMATIC CENSOR, as far as
possible a general national work, measures have been taken to obtain
from the capital cities, of the other states, a regular account of their
theatrical transactions. To this will be added a register of the other
public exhibitions, and, in general, of all the fashionable amusements
of this city, and, from time to time, the sporting intelligence of the
new and old country.

To the first part, which will be entitled "The Domestic Dramatic
Censor," will succeed the "Foreign Dramatic Censor." This will contain a
general account of all that passes in the theatres of Great Britain,
likely to interest the fashionable world and _amateurs_ of America, viz.
the new pieces, whether play, farce, or interlude, with their prologues
and epilogues, together with their character and reception there, and
critiques on the acting, collected from the various opinions of the best
critics, together with the amusing occurrences, anecdotes, bon-mots, and
greenroom chitchat, scattered through the various periodical
publications of England, Ireland, and Scotland.

The next head will be Stage Biography, under which the reader will find
the lives and characters of the leading actors of both countries.

These will be followed by a miscellany collated from the foreign
productions, catalogues of the best books and best compositions in
music, published or preparing for publication in Europe or America, with
concise reviews of such as have already appeared.

Poetry, of course, will be introduced; not, as usual, under one head,
but scattered in detached pieces through the whole.

TERMS.

_The price of the Mirror will be eight dollars per annum, payable on the
delivery of the sixth number._

_A number will b