Betterton's Duties of a Player

Sir,—Betterton's *Instructions on the Art of Playing and Public Speaking*, queried in your 5th Number, were published by the well-known dramatic critic, Charles Gildon, and form a portion of his *Life of Betterton*. As this work is little known, I shall quote the title at length:—"The Life of Mr. Thomas Betterton, the late eminent Tragedian, wherein the Action and Utterance of the Stage, Bar, and Pulpit, are distinctly considered; with the judgment of the late ingenious Monsieur de St. Evremond, upon the Italian and French Music and Operas, in a Letter to the Duke of Buckingham. To which is ad…