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Mr. Dutton Cook's Book Of The Play.*

Mn. DurroN COOK has - seen many plays—it required, for instance, a large experience to produce the curious generalisation that the " drum " alone of all the orchestra-performers......

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Stu HUMPHREY DAVY, on coming to himself after his first inha- lation of nitrous oxide, is reported to have exclaimed, "Nothing . exists except ideas ! " and we, as we closed Dr.......