Note 11 — THE DRURIAD, &c.

The satirist, averse to exhibiting scenes of folly, fixes with delight on beauty and excellence: as the traveller, weary of the uniformity of a dusky heath, wanders with joy over fertile plains and enamelled meadows. Seldom have we received more various and rational pleasure than from the truly excellent performances of Miss Decamp. With a face well adapted to express the sentiments of the soul, an elegant and graceful person, appropriate action, and a knowledge of her author’s meaning, which good understanding alone can give, this young lady bids fair to obtain general and unrivalled approbation. But, as the human mind, however variously gifted by nature, has still some single object in which it is peculiarly fated to figure, some cast of character which is exclusively its province, we would strongly recommend it to this young lady to study Mrs. Jordan’s comic characters, without meaning to preclude her from those occasional variations, which no one can undergo with more justice and versatility than herself.