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Fort-Folios . 
It is scarcely necessary to add, that pipes to speak 
through should be laid from the green room to every 
apartment of the actors. 
6. I have left the article of expense to the last, because 
whatever essentially tends to the convenience and gratifi- 
cation of the public will always find sufficient supplies 
from the liberality of Britain. A small addition to the 
price of the tickets would amply defray the expense, that 
would be incurred by any real improvements. 
If the united efforts of men of science and men of 
practice were directed to this object, we might expect to 
see a theatre superior to any on the continent, adapted 
both to the purposes of splendid exhibition and of true 
comedy ; where our children might be entertained with 
the “Forty Thieves,” and ourselves with “The Rivals’’ 
and the “ School for Scandal.” 
Richard Lovell Edgeworth. 
To Mr. Nicholson. 
NO. 70. 
description of a very simple and cheap Contrivance for 
making Port Folios of large Dimensions . By the late 
James Malton, Esquire .* 
(With an engraving 1 .) 
Sir— As I well know the great inconvenience expe- 
rienced by artists and collectors of prints and drawings, 
from the want of portfolios of dimensions capable of in- 
closing large subjects, and as I also well know that the 
means used by the Society for the Encouragement of 
Arts, &c. to promulgate knowledge and useful informa- 
* Nicholson, vol. 9, p. 128. From the Transactions of the Society for the En- 
couragement of Jlrt s% & c, for 1803o 
