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Excerpt from The Garrick Club
These portraits are the highest tribute conceivable to the merits of the players of a century or so ago, and a corresponding reection on the expressionless nature of the acting of our time. The portraits so thoughtful and brightly intelligent prove that the old comedies in which they were trained were stones on which they whetted, as it were, their observation and characters. Any one who has carefully read over Elia's criticism will feel this as he passes from face to face. Therefore it is that no one at the Garrick Club can ever lack company - and the best of company. He may find his mates dull or humdrum, but he has all these great folk to fall back upon.
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