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ramatic sketches, for instance. These sketches provoked comparison with innumerable French trifles, which they could not rival in execution. Private Theatricals offers the same thing on a larger scale, and under still greater disadvantages. Mrs. Farrell reveals herself, at the first glance, as a coquette too shallow and vulgar to be really interesting; and she never rises above that level until she disappears from the scene, flinging her last net for the cow-boy in the pasture. Her habit ofen when the last shred of decorum is about to drop. She is a thoroughly artistic creation; in watching her never so closely, you cannot see the wires pulled ; but in Private Theatricals we seem constantly to have notice given, Please observe, Mrs. Farrell is about to attitudinize The moral of all this is, that Mr. Howells cannot be, if he would, an artist per se, like Droz, in reading whose brilliant trifles we are in a world where the execution is all, the thought nothing, and the moral les