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The German company have at length brought their labours to a close;. and, on the whole, their career has been most honourable. We are not among those who have gone into ecstacies about the histrionic exhibitions of our Teutonic cousins, nor do we for a moment imagine that the ex- citement of raptures was within the compass of Mr. Mitchell's expecta- tions. The English public) has seen a number of literary works of the very highest rank in the country of their production represented with earnestness and completeness; and the series has been consequently one of the most instructive ever witnessed on London boards. It not only stimulated a great number of literary dilettanti to "rub up" their Ger- man, but it gave them an opportunity of perceiving the degree of theatrical efficiency possessed by plays previously acted in the imagina- tion only. Faust was repeated for the closing night, and drew a crowded house,—less, we opine, from its fitness for the stage, than from that enormous celebrity which can overweigh every other consideration.
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