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To employ Mr. F. Robson to the best advantage according

to his known talents, the dramatic author should contrive for him a farcical character in which those intense emotions prevail that might constitute the pathos of tragedy. A hypochondriac, who desires to die, but as soon as he thinks death is certain feels a rabid desire to live, is just the sort of per- sonage we mean ; and with such a character is Mr. F. Robson provided in the last Olympic novelty—A Blighted Being.