Transcriber's Note: The verses in the section on Gestures of Actors on p. [309] are loosely quoted from "The Rosciad" by Charles Churchill, which more accurately reads:

"... When to enforce some very tender part,

The right hand slips by instinct on the heart,

His soul, of every other thought bereft,

Is anxious only where to place the left;..."

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