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Rejected Addresses were a very good squib, the rejected Dramas are much too ponderous a joke for the public to take; so that, while in their manuscript form, they always produced speedy _returns_ from the managers, they, in their printed shape, caused no _returns_ to the publishers. It is true, that a personal acquaintance of some of the authors with Nokes of the _North Eastern Independent_, or some other equally-influential country print, may have gained for them, now and then, an egregious puff, wherein the writers are said to be equal to Goëthe, a cut above Sheridan Knowles, and the only successors of Shakspeare; but we suspect that