nalities, and well know that J. K.
is an eminent actor, and one whom we have not niggardly praised. Yet we
will not disparage departed excellence for any person existing; and
therefore cannot avoid wishing our young author had seen Garrick, and
bearing in his "mind's eye" his natural acting of Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth,
Richard, &c.--he might then go and witness the performances of Mr.
Kemble--and judge!

CORRESPONDENCE.

The conductors of the Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, have already
to make acknowledgments to correspondents. Scarcely had their intention
been promulgated when they were favoured with a letter, which, in less
than a week afterwards was followed by two more, all of them upon the
same subject, though evidently written by different persons. It had
before been the intention of the conductors to call the public attention
very soon to that very point to which these letters are intended to
direct them; and conceiving that a fairer occasion for doing so can
hardly occur than these letters afford them, they hasten to lay the
contents of them before the public.

"_To the Conductors of the Dramatic Work to be published by Messrs.
Bradford and Inskeep._

_November 27._

"Sirs,

"From what I can learn about your intended publication I like the idea,
and have no doubt it may be of great use. I have often said that such a
thing was much wanting, for I look upon a playhouse to be a very good
thing, often keeping young men from worse places, and young women from
worse employment. But if our playhouse goes on as it does, it will soon
be a worse place to go to than any I allude to. Last evening I brought
my family to see the play, and I assure you, I often wished we were all
away again, the scandalous talk in the gallery was so bad. The noise was
so great that there was no hearing any thing else. The players' voices
were ten or a dozen times interrupted so that they could not be heard,
and two or three fellows in the gallery were particularly scandalous.
Above all the rest there was one, a finished vagabond, who spoke smut
and roared it out loud, directing it to the ladies in the boxes. If any
of you was there, gentlemen, you must have noticed it; if not, I can't
write such filthy words as was spoken the whole evening. My wife begged
me to come away on our little girl's account who was with us. It is not
the players you ought to criticise, they behave themselves--but it is
those vagabonds that think th