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THE

ATLANTIC MONTHLY.

A MAGAZINE OF LITERATURE, ART, AND POLITICS.

VOL. XII.--OCTOBER, 1863.--NO. LXXII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by TICKNOR AND
FIELDS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of
Massachusetts.

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CHARLES LAMB'S UNCOLLECTED WRITINGS.[1]

SECOND PAPER.


Readers of Lamb's "Life and Letters" remember that before "Mr. H." was
written, before Kemble had rejected "John Woodvil," Godwin's tragedy of
"Antonio" had been produced at Drury-Lane Theatre, and that Elia was
present at the performance thereof. But perhaps they do not know (at
least, not many of them) that Elia's essay on "The Artificial Comedy of
the Last Century," as originally published in the "London Magazine,"