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Some American genius having swelled out the neat little ghost-story of the Corsican Brothers into a dreary five-act play, deemed suitable for the talents of Mr. G. V. Brooke at Diury Lane, the Transatlantic tediousness was inflicted last Monday on the London public; which was not a little surprised that the shudder once awakened by the sympathetic spectre now had a yawn for its unpoetical substitute. The piece has been liberally put upon the stage ; and the best thing which the manager could do with it would be to bring it back to its normal condition, just as it was before the improving hand of the American was laid upon it. The notion that it is at all fitted to display Mr. G. V. Brooke is a complete mistake : it does not bring forward any one of those qualities by which he has made an impression on the public.
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