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THE ATHENÆUM
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A.
Mozart : farcical.
Yet, though Dickens might have alien, Miss Margaret Morris's sly-eyed
sa Vie musicale et son Euvre de l'Enfance fathered the character, or rather puppet, flower-girl, and Mr. Wilfred Shine's cab-
à la pleine Maturité. ' They add at the end on whom or which such story as there is
a chronological catalogue of the complete hangs, it is hardly in a mood of high call for unstinted praise. On the other
man, most shameless yet genial of topers,
works of Mozart.
spirits that playgoers will watch the enter hand, Mr. Kane
tainment the author of 'Strife' and individualize the artist, whom, it must
unable to
THE MUNICH FESTIVAL will consist of three
Justice' has prepared for them at the be admitted, Mr. Galsworthy has made
cycles of the Ring' (August 15th, 16th,
18th, and 20th ; August 26th, 27th, 29th, Royalty. For the merry-makers whom
no more than an embodied humour.
and 31st ; and September 6th, 7th, 9th, and he calls to his aid are selected from the
Ilth); four performances of Tristan wreckage of humanity—social derelicts Constant
Lover,' a charming little one-act
The Pigeon' was preceded by The
(August 13th and 22nd, September 2nd and who, even while they divert, may sadden play by St. John Hankin, a study in
13th); and four of ‘Die Meistersinger and puzzle minds over problems to which modern courtship acted in just the right
(August 11th and 24th, September 4th and the answers present difficulties.
15th).
spirit by Mr. Eadie and that bright young
In particular, the slum-types of Mr. actress Miss Gladys Cooper.
THE following musical autographs were
Galsworthy's invention, who seek a refuge
sold last week at Messrs. Puttick & Simp- one Christmas Eve in the studio of a
son's: the last two movements of Beet- recklessly good-natured artist, raise the
hoven's Sonata (Op. 110), 901. ; a Sketch- problem of charity. One thing he seeks 'THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE' AT
Book (1815-16), 135l. ; and Mozart's Quintet to impress on his audience is that indis-
THE LITTLE THEATRE.
for Strings in D, 1661.
criminate almsgiving, such as Christopher
Wellwyn's, which strips him of the where- EARNESTNESS is a sign of grace in the
The death is announced of. Hermann withal to support his little daughter and dramatist, and Mr. Cosmo Hamilton is.
Winkelmann. He made his début on the himself in comfort, and saddles him with very earnest in his new play,. ' The Blind-
stage at Sondershausen, but from 1882 to
ness of Virtue. ' There are times, indeed,
1906 was Court opera singer at Vienna. the burden of maintaining for a while a
In 1882 he was the original Parsifal at disreputable and useless set of house when his clergyman-hero thunders forth
Bayreuth. He sang in the same year, mates, is not of the smallest advantage, speeches as to the perils of the innocence
under Richter at Drury Lane, in ‘Lohen- even to the objects of its benevolence. that is ignorance just as though he were
ring. ' Winkelmann was highly esteemed as Equally unsuccessful the efforts in the pulpit denouncing conduct or
an oratorio singer.
of more responsible agents—a justice of doctrine for which there is no defence
the peace, a professor, and a clergyman-possible. The day is gone by, surely, in
We have also to record the death of Bruno
to better the condition of the wastrels. which the philanthropist could imagine
Mugellini, an excellent pianist, teacher (at When this trio have tried to settle that solemn lecturing serves any good
the Liceo musicale at Bologna), and com-
poser. He edited, in conjunction with I.
a flower-girl's matrimonial affairs, to purpose in the case of people who are in
Philipp, a fine edition of the clavier works of reform a drunken cabman, and to find trouble, or that nice problems of an ethical
J. S. Bach.
work for a down-at-heel alien, the girl or physiological sort may be settled by a
drifts back into vice, the cabman returns formula admitting of no compromise or
The death on Tuesday last of Florence to drink, the foreigner is once more exceptions.
St. John will be regretted by many fre reduced to rags, and each of them is ready
The Rev. Harry Pemberton is a faddist
quenters, in earlier days, of opera and to rush on that escape from life which about the training of young girls. His.
musical comedy. Her final appearance took
society refuses to permit.
place two years ago, and for some time she
experience has brought him to the con-
had not been at her best. Born in 1854, she
For those who are prepared to accept clusion that irreparable harm may be
was on the stage as a child; emerged fror Mr. Galsworthy's lead there is an abund- done by the policy of silence, and there-
life of painful struggle an excellent singer ance of thought and shrewd observation, fore he gives orders that his little daughter
and an effective actress ; and became a
as well as fun, in “The Pigeon. ' It is shall at nineteen be told by her mother
favourite in pieces of a light order.
true he has not troubled over-much certain facts about life and warned about
about matters of technique and plot certain sex - instincts. The poor lady
-indeed, his play has a resemblance to promises obedience, but cannot bring
* Passers-By' in the successive knocks herself to perform the task. It is then
at the door, which might exasperate by that her husband makes a seeming dis-
their monotonous regularity did they not covery which confirms him in his theory,
ordinarily prelude some amusing exhibi- but fills him with despair. His Effie,
tion of character. The author does not the darling child on whose enlightenment
idealize his wastrels; he puts their point he has insisted, is found by him in cir-
of view in an eloquent outburst which he cumstances which suggest that she is
Stock Exchange orchestral and Choral Society, 6. 30. Qacen's assigns to his alien. So far from being deliberately wanton, and that his domestic
rooks who pluck the plump pigeon's peace has been destroyed by a guest in
feathers, says this mouthpiece, he and whom he trusted. He has accepted as .
his kind are really wild birds whom society pupil a lad who has been sont down in
insists on caging, victims of the roving disgrace from Oxford, but has pledged
spirit who could support themselves, were I his word to his host to redeem his name.
are
à
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Sux. Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
Sunday lengue, 7, Queen's Hall.
Tuxs. , WED. Fri, and SAT. , London Opera House. (Matinde also on
Snturday.
Mox, Wesley Woman's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Queen's Hall
London Trio, 8. 30, Æolinn Hall.
Tuxs. Leonard Berwick's Pianoforte Recital, 3 Queen's Ball.
British Wonen Artistes' Society, 3, Æolian Hall.
James Priskio's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 30, Steinway Hall.
WED. Olassical Concert Society 3, Bechstein Hall.
Mark Hambourg's Pianoforte Recital, 3. Queen's Hall.
Quartet, 8. 15.
THCRs. Twelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Æolian Hall.
Sergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Philharmonic Society. 8, Quren's Ball.
FRI. Madame Pandie Bloombeld Zeisler's Pianoforte Recital, 3,
Queen's Ball.
Broadwood's i bamber Concert, 8. 30, Æolian Hall.
SAT. Chappell & Rallad
Concert, 2 30. Queen's Hall.
Berr Egon Petri's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall
York Bowen's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Æolian Ball.
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an
Mr. Hamilton's play is an adaptation, employed, and unless the franchise is ex- in 'The Last Tournament,' l. 502, where
It is
and it is possible that in the novel he tended to all adults of both sexes. we think, it is a Shakespearian reminiscence.
handled his theme more convincingly to the ministers of State that all censure is Here, then, an alternative rendering or a
than he does on the stage. There is over-
confined-three men who have concentrated query might be suggested. The use of
power
in their own hands, and administer awkward” for perverse (* Henry V. ,'
much display of affection in the vicarage affairs to the advantage of militarism, the II. iv, 85) may sound strange to modern
family, and we do not see enough of the wealthy classes, and the owners of vested ears, but is common, as we can testify, in
friction of real life. The vicar is too interests; and the severest denunciations Warwickshire dialect. On the other hand,
effusive in his geniality and lofty senti- of their doings are put in the mouth of we can find no justification for an anony-
ments, his wife is too helpless in her lack King Henricus himself.
mous statement in The Edinburgh Review
of intelligence, the boy-guest is too
for October, 1872, that “pioned” (* Tempest,'
Sentiments of a Socialistic sort are ex-
IV. i. 64) refers to the marsh marigold, and
lachrymose about his never having been pressed in the course of the play, yet far
are glad to see that it secures no countenance
trusted, the servants are comic in a stagey more trenchant criticism of national rivalry here.
The passage demands the query
way, while Effie is credited with amazing Imperialism, and the policy which pursues canker” in some parts of Buckinghamshire,
armaments, the aggressive form of attached to it. The dog-rose is still the
ingenuousness. Nor is the author very superficial prosperity regardless of social
happy in his technique. Having decided inequalities is to be met with every day in
as in Sonnet LIV.
to place his big scene in Archie's bedroom, the press, in public speeches, and in books, Diety," a well-established Elizabethan
he has to bring the bulk of his characters than is to be found in this dream of a king form of Deity,” is not included but
there, so that we get the idea that the who takes his orders from a woman of the it occurs in the Quarto of Troilus and
whole household makes it a sort of people and breaks free of red tape. If Cressida,' IV. ii. 27, as Mr. A. H. Bullen
thoroughfare.
Socialism is a growing force in civilized points out, and may well, as he suggests, be
countries, and if monarchy must adapt read for the rhyme with “society" in
It is difficult to conceive that girlhood itself to its political surroundings, may not ‘Tempest,' IV. i. 91–2.
at nineteen could be so curious a com- such a state of things as the two playwrights
The almost hopelessly confused texts of
bination of innocence and passion as this conceive, be only an intelligent anticipation The Merry Wives include the oddities
of events ?
clergyman's daughter. Not unnaturally
“ gongarian and cosen garmombles,"
the youth, when assured that Effie has Even if the opinions set forth in this which Mr. Onions has not thought it worth
been initiated into the secrets of woman- drama are revolutionary, it has always been while to notice. The latter at least suggests
hood, momentarily suspects her of having the maxim in English life, except on the a contemporary hit of interest.
tempted him, and this is not a pretty to any phase of thought which is not calcu- words on which the information has claims
A glance at the Preface will show several
moment in the play. The author, having lated directly to subvert the social order. to be unusually complete. But while Mr.
plunged into melodrama, has to continue The allegory, so pleasantly written, obviously Onions's care and labour deserve every
on the same plane, and to show the lad presents ideal. Its plea for social credit, he seems to us sometimes unaware
contemplating suicide before the curtain amelioration concerns a cause to which all of the advance made by his predecessors.
can be rung down on a “happy ending. " our political parties are in one way or Thus“ a-life dearly,” though ignored
another pledged ; its protest against the race by modern editors in their texts, is rightly
The honours in respect of acting fall in naval and military expenditure is one explained in a Shakespeare Word-Book”
to the young people of the cast—to Mr. which, did they see any escape from the before us.
Owen Nares, who pictures Archie as a intolerable alternative, the peoples of Europe
typical Oxford boy of to-day, and to Miss would heartily endorse. Mr. Shaw has con-
Margery Maude, whose girlish charm trived to say far more unconventional things
in the theatre than the joint-authors of
almost reconciles us to Effie's mixture
The Coronation, and some of them have
Dramatic Gossip.
of precocity and naïveté, and is extremely escaped the licenser's ban.
persuasive in her love-scenes. Miss Pollie
A MATINÉE performance, arranged by
Emery as a cook who is a good-natured
Mr. J. H. Leigh at the Court Theatre this
tyrant, and Mr. Leonard Calvert as the
THERE have been several glossaries of week, served to introduce a playwright of
vicarage gardener, score in low-comedy Shakespeare's language published of late,
uncommon promise, and a play which, though
passages ; and the refinement of Miss and one might think that the subject had what harsh in style, deserves to be described
a little ragged on its technical side and some.
Beryl Faber's subdued manner in the part been sufficiently explored.
as a powerful and conscientious piece of work,
of the clergyman's wife pleasantly con- Shakespeare Glossary, compiled by Mr.
showing marked intelligence and ability.
trasts with their broad humours. Mr. / C. T. Onions (Oxford, Clarendon Press), has, | The author of 'Rutherford and Son,' who
Charles Kenyon does his best by declama-
however, a special claim on our attention,
tion to render Mr. Pemberton an agreeable English Dictionary: Mr. Onions has been character and' maintaining its outlines
as it embodies the results of the New seems to be a woman, and signs herself
K. G. Sowerby, has the gift of expressing
representative of“ muscular Christianity, engaged on the editorial staff of that great
but not even his efforts can prevent the work for fifteen years, and he puts before consistently in stage action, and she knows
how to suggest atmosphere ”-in the
us in a concise and satisfactory form the
parson's reminiscences of his youth from
fruits of its admirable analysis of words.
present case that of a family crushed by the
being tedious.
tyranny of a North-Country factory-owner,
He has, further, paid attention to Midland who subordinates all his human relation-
and Warwickshire dialects, a folk-speech ships and his children's aspirations to the
which still, we hope, keeps its colour and interests of his firm. Inevitably a moment
inflexions. The latest comer in the Shake- arrives when the younger generation rebels
OUR LIBRARY TABLE, spearian field has, of course, the most ma- against his grim heartlessness, and it is the
terials to rely upon, and Mr. Onions has story of this series of revolts that the
Why did the stage Censor, a Court official, made judicious use of recent work by such author describes very simply, but con-
Their vincingly in her drama.
forbid any but a private performance of commentators as the late H. C. Hart.
Christopher St. John and Charles Thursby's The book is decidedly cheap, and should be well carried through by Mr. Edmund Breon,
aid is, we are glad to see, fully acknowledged.
A son's passage of arms with his father is
one-act play,
national Suffrage Shop)? There is no hint widely appreciated.
though more telling is the denunciation by
of disloyalty or anti-monarchical feeling We mention a few points which have Miss Edyth Olive of the old man's bullying
in its story or dialogue ; indeed, the imagi. struck us in our examination. We notice ways. Hardly less effective are the quieter
nary king of the piece, Henricus XVI. of with pleasure that important emendations, reproaches of the son's wife, played by
Omnisterre, objects to being a puppet ruler, as well as Folio and Quarto readings, are Miss Thyrza Norman, who imposes her own
and strains the constitution of his realm in recorded, and that some passages are frankly conditions on her father-in-law if she is to
order to restore the liberties and redress the admitted to be disputable or beyond cure. consent to keep up his home for him and
wrongs of his people. So democratic is “Rooky,” in ‘Macbeth'(III. ii. 51), may have permit him the society of his little grandchild.
this young prince that he refuses to take the Northern dialect sense of misty. " How stern and incisive Mr. Norman McKinnel
the coronation oath unless the ceremony Mr. Onions makes it only the adjective of proves as the old autocrat, how successfully he
takes place outside the cathedral so that “ rook. " The mention of
and conveys the idea of masterfulness and relent-
his humblest subjects may be spectators, “ rooky together can be defended. The less purpose, those who have watched this
unless his crown is broken up and sold to interest of the dialectal sense is that it has actor's career will readily understand. The
provide food for the starving and the un. been used in the form “ roky” by Tennyson play and its author should be heard of again.
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sa Vie musicale et son Euvre de l'Enfance fathered the character, or rather puppet, flower-girl, and Mr. Wilfred Shine's cab-
à la pleine Maturité. ' They add at the end on whom or which such story as there is
a chronological catalogue of the complete hangs, it is hardly in a mood of high call for unstinted praise. On the other
man, most shameless yet genial of topers,
works of Mozart.
spirits that playgoers will watch the enter hand, Mr. Kane
tainment the author of 'Strife' and individualize the artist, whom, it must
unable to
THE MUNICH FESTIVAL will consist of three
Justice' has prepared for them at the be admitted, Mr. Galsworthy has made
cycles of the Ring' (August 15th, 16th,
18th, and 20th ; August 26th, 27th, 29th, Royalty. For the merry-makers whom
no more than an embodied humour.
and 31st ; and September 6th, 7th, 9th, and he calls to his aid are selected from the
Ilth); four performances of Tristan wreckage of humanity—social derelicts Constant
Lover,' a charming little one-act
The Pigeon' was preceded by The
(August 13th and 22nd, September 2nd and who, even while they divert, may sadden play by St. John Hankin, a study in
13th); and four of ‘Die Meistersinger and puzzle minds over problems to which modern courtship acted in just the right
(August 11th and 24th, September 4th and the answers present difficulties.
15th).
spirit by Mr. Eadie and that bright young
In particular, the slum-types of Mr. actress Miss Gladys Cooper.
THE following musical autographs were
Galsworthy's invention, who seek a refuge
sold last week at Messrs. Puttick & Simp- one Christmas Eve in the studio of a
son's: the last two movements of Beet- recklessly good-natured artist, raise the
hoven's Sonata (Op. 110), 901. ; a Sketch- problem of charity. One thing he seeks 'THE BLINDNESS OF VIRTUE' AT
Book (1815-16), 135l. ; and Mozart's Quintet to impress on his audience is that indis-
THE LITTLE THEATRE.
for Strings in D, 1661.
criminate almsgiving, such as Christopher
Wellwyn's, which strips him of the where- EARNESTNESS is a sign of grace in the
The death is announced of. Hermann withal to support his little daughter and dramatist, and Mr. Cosmo Hamilton is.
Winkelmann. He made his début on the himself in comfort, and saddles him with very earnest in his new play,. ' The Blind-
stage at Sondershausen, but from 1882 to
ness of Virtue. ' There are times, indeed,
1906 was Court opera singer at Vienna. the burden of maintaining for a while a
In 1882 he was the original Parsifal at disreputable and useless set of house when his clergyman-hero thunders forth
Bayreuth. He sang in the same year, mates, is not of the smallest advantage, speeches as to the perils of the innocence
under Richter at Drury Lane, in ‘Lohen- even to the objects of its benevolence. that is ignorance just as though he were
ring. ' Winkelmann was highly esteemed as Equally unsuccessful the efforts in the pulpit denouncing conduct or
an oratorio singer.
of more responsible agents—a justice of doctrine for which there is no defence
the peace, a professor, and a clergyman-possible. The day is gone by, surely, in
We have also to record the death of Bruno
to better the condition of the wastrels. which the philanthropist could imagine
Mugellini, an excellent pianist, teacher (at When this trio have tried to settle that solemn lecturing serves any good
the Liceo musicale at Bologna), and com-
poser. He edited, in conjunction with I.
a flower-girl's matrimonial affairs, to purpose in the case of people who are in
Philipp, a fine edition of the clavier works of reform a drunken cabman, and to find trouble, or that nice problems of an ethical
J. S. Bach.
work for a down-at-heel alien, the girl or physiological sort may be settled by a
drifts back into vice, the cabman returns formula admitting of no compromise or
The death on Tuesday last of Florence to drink, the foreigner is once more exceptions.
St. John will be regretted by many fre reduced to rags, and each of them is ready
The Rev. Harry Pemberton is a faddist
quenters, in earlier days, of opera and to rush on that escape from life which about the training of young girls. His.
musical comedy. Her final appearance took
society refuses to permit.
place two years ago, and for some time she
experience has brought him to the con-
had not been at her best. Born in 1854, she
For those who are prepared to accept clusion that irreparable harm may be
was on the stage as a child; emerged fror Mr. Galsworthy's lead there is an abund- done by the policy of silence, and there-
life of painful struggle an excellent singer ance of thought and shrewd observation, fore he gives orders that his little daughter
and an effective actress ; and became a
as well as fun, in “The Pigeon. ' It is shall at nineteen be told by her mother
favourite in pieces of a light order.
true he has not troubled over-much certain facts about life and warned about
about matters of technique and plot certain sex - instincts. The poor lady
-indeed, his play has a resemblance to promises obedience, but cannot bring
* Passers-By' in the successive knocks herself to perform the task. It is then
at the door, which might exasperate by that her husband makes a seeming dis-
their monotonous regularity did they not covery which confirms him in his theory,
ordinarily prelude some amusing exhibi- but fills him with despair. His Effie,
tion of character. The author does not the darling child on whose enlightenment
idealize his wastrels; he puts their point he has insisted, is found by him in cir-
of view in an eloquent outburst which he cumstances which suggest that she is
Stock Exchange orchestral and Choral Society, 6. 30. Qacen's assigns to his alien. So far from being deliberately wanton, and that his domestic
rooks who pluck the plump pigeon's peace has been destroyed by a guest in
feathers, says this mouthpiece, he and whom he trusted. He has accepted as .
his kind are really wild birds whom society pupil a lad who has been sont down in
insists on caging, victims of the roving disgrace from Oxford, but has pledged
spirit who could support themselves, were I his word to his host to redeem his name.
are
à
PERFORMANCES NEXT WEEK.
Sux. Concert, 3, Royal Albert Hall
Sunday Concert Society, 3. 30, Queen's Hall.
Sunday lengue, 7, Queen's Hall.
Tuxs. , WED. Fri, and SAT. , London Opera House. (Matinde also on
Snturday.
Mox, Wesley Woman's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 15, Queen's Hall
London Trio, 8. 30, Æolinn Hall.
Tuxs. Leonard Berwick's Pianoforte Recital, 3 Queen's Ball.
British Wonen Artistes' Society, 3, Æolian Hall.
James Priskio's Pianoforte Recital, 8. 30, Steinway Hall.
WED. Olassical Concert Society 3, Bechstein Hall.
Mark Hambourg's Pianoforte Recital, 3. Queen's Hall.
Quartet, 8. 15.
THCRs. Twelve o'clock Chamber Concert, Æolian Hall.
Sergei Tarnowsky's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall.
Philharmonic Society. 8, Quren's Ball.
FRI. Madame Pandie Bloombeld Zeisler's Pianoforte Recital, 3,
Queen's Ball.
Broadwood's i bamber Concert, 8. 30, Æolian Hall.
SAT. Chappell & Rallad
Concert, 2 30. Queen's Hall.
Berr Egon Petri's Pianoforte Recital, 3, Bechstein Hall
York Bowen's Pianoforte Recital, 3. 15, Æolian Ball.
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139
an
Mr. Hamilton's play is an adaptation, employed, and unless the franchise is ex- in 'The Last Tournament,' l. 502, where
It is
and it is possible that in the novel he tended to all adults of both sexes. we think, it is a Shakespearian reminiscence.
handled his theme more convincingly to the ministers of State that all censure is Here, then, an alternative rendering or a
than he does on the stage. There is over-
confined-three men who have concentrated query might be suggested. The use of
power
in their own hands, and administer awkward” for perverse (* Henry V. ,'
much display of affection in the vicarage affairs to the advantage of militarism, the II. iv, 85) may sound strange to modern
family, and we do not see enough of the wealthy classes, and the owners of vested ears, but is common, as we can testify, in
friction of real life. The vicar is too interests; and the severest denunciations Warwickshire dialect. On the other hand,
effusive in his geniality and lofty senti- of their doings are put in the mouth of we can find no justification for an anony-
ments, his wife is too helpless in her lack King Henricus himself.
mous statement in The Edinburgh Review
of intelligence, the boy-guest is too
for October, 1872, that “pioned” (* Tempest,'
Sentiments of a Socialistic sort are ex-
IV. i. 64) refers to the marsh marigold, and
lachrymose about his never having been pressed in the course of the play, yet far
are glad to see that it secures no countenance
trusted, the servants are comic in a stagey more trenchant criticism of national rivalry here.
The passage demands the query
way, while Effie is credited with amazing Imperialism, and the policy which pursues canker” in some parts of Buckinghamshire,
armaments, the aggressive form of attached to it. The dog-rose is still the
ingenuousness. Nor is the author very superficial prosperity regardless of social
happy in his technique. Having decided inequalities is to be met with every day in
as in Sonnet LIV.
to place his big scene in Archie's bedroom, the press, in public speeches, and in books, Diety," a well-established Elizabethan
he has to bring the bulk of his characters than is to be found in this dream of a king form of Deity,” is not included but
there, so that we get the idea that the who takes his orders from a woman of the it occurs in the Quarto of Troilus and
whole household makes it a sort of people and breaks free of red tape. If Cressida,' IV. ii. 27, as Mr. A. H. Bullen
thoroughfare.
Socialism is a growing force in civilized points out, and may well, as he suggests, be
countries, and if monarchy must adapt read for the rhyme with “society" in
It is difficult to conceive that girlhood itself to its political surroundings, may not ‘Tempest,' IV. i. 91–2.
at nineteen could be so curious a com- such a state of things as the two playwrights
The almost hopelessly confused texts of
bination of innocence and passion as this conceive, be only an intelligent anticipation The Merry Wives include the oddities
of events ?
clergyman's daughter. Not unnaturally
“ gongarian and cosen garmombles,"
the youth, when assured that Effie has Even if the opinions set forth in this which Mr. Onions has not thought it worth
been initiated into the secrets of woman- drama are revolutionary, it has always been while to notice. The latter at least suggests
hood, momentarily suspects her of having the maxim in English life, except on the a contemporary hit of interest.
tempted him, and this is not a pretty to any phase of thought which is not calcu- words on which the information has claims
A glance at the Preface will show several
moment in the play. The author, having lated directly to subvert the social order. to be unusually complete. But while Mr.
plunged into melodrama, has to continue The allegory, so pleasantly written, obviously Onions's care and labour deserve every
on the same plane, and to show the lad presents ideal. Its plea for social credit, he seems to us sometimes unaware
contemplating suicide before the curtain amelioration concerns a cause to which all of the advance made by his predecessors.
can be rung down on a “happy ending. " our political parties are in one way or Thus“ a-life dearly,” though ignored
another pledged ; its protest against the race by modern editors in their texts, is rightly
The honours in respect of acting fall in naval and military expenditure is one explained in a Shakespeare Word-Book”
to the young people of the cast—to Mr. which, did they see any escape from the before us.
Owen Nares, who pictures Archie as a intolerable alternative, the peoples of Europe
typical Oxford boy of to-day, and to Miss would heartily endorse. Mr. Shaw has con-
Margery Maude, whose girlish charm trived to say far more unconventional things
in the theatre than the joint-authors of
almost reconciles us to Effie's mixture
The Coronation, and some of them have
Dramatic Gossip.
of precocity and naïveté, and is extremely escaped the licenser's ban.
persuasive in her love-scenes. Miss Pollie
A MATINÉE performance, arranged by
Emery as a cook who is a good-natured
Mr. J. H. Leigh at the Court Theatre this
tyrant, and Mr. Leonard Calvert as the
THERE have been several glossaries of week, served to introduce a playwright of
vicarage gardener, score in low-comedy Shakespeare's language published of late,
uncommon promise, and a play which, though
passages ; and the refinement of Miss and one might think that the subject had what harsh in style, deserves to be described
a little ragged on its technical side and some.
Beryl Faber's subdued manner in the part been sufficiently explored.
as a powerful and conscientious piece of work,
of the clergyman's wife pleasantly con- Shakespeare Glossary, compiled by Mr.
showing marked intelligence and ability.
trasts with their broad humours. Mr. / C. T. Onions (Oxford, Clarendon Press), has, | The author of 'Rutherford and Son,' who
Charles Kenyon does his best by declama-
however, a special claim on our attention,
tion to render Mr. Pemberton an agreeable English Dictionary: Mr. Onions has been character and' maintaining its outlines
as it embodies the results of the New seems to be a woman, and signs herself
K. G. Sowerby, has the gift of expressing
representative of“ muscular Christianity, engaged on the editorial staff of that great
but not even his efforts can prevent the work for fifteen years, and he puts before consistently in stage action, and she knows
how to suggest atmosphere ”-in the
us in a concise and satisfactory form the
parson's reminiscences of his youth from
fruits of its admirable analysis of words.
present case that of a family crushed by the
being tedious.
tyranny of a North-Country factory-owner,
He has, further, paid attention to Midland who subordinates all his human relation-
and Warwickshire dialects, a folk-speech ships and his children's aspirations to the
which still, we hope, keeps its colour and interests of his firm. Inevitably a moment
inflexions. The latest comer in the Shake- arrives when the younger generation rebels
OUR LIBRARY TABLE, spearian field has, of course, the most ma- against his grim heartlessness, and it is the
terials to rely upon, and Mr. Onions has story of this series of revolts that the
Why did the stage Censor, a Court official, made judicious use of recent work by such author describes very simply, but con-
Their vincingly in her drama.
forbid any but a private performance of commentators as the late H. C. Hart.
Christopher St. John and Charles Thursby's The book is decidedly cheap, and should be well carried through by Mr. Edmund Breon,
aid is, we are glad to see, fully acknowledged.
A son's passage of arms with his father is
one-act play,
national Suffrage Shop)? There is no hint widely appreciated.
though more telling is the denunciation by
of disloyalty or anti-monarchical feeling We mention a few points which have Miss Edyth Olive of the old man's bullying
in its story or dialogue ; indeed, the imagi. struck us in our examination. We notice ways. Hardly less effective are the quieter
nary king of the piece, Henricus XVI. of with pleasure that important emendations, reproaches of the son's wife, played by
Omnisterre, objects to being a puppet ruler, as well as Folio and Quarto readings, are Miss Thyrza Norman, who imposes her own
and strains the constitution of his realm in recorded, and that some passages are frankly conditions on her father-in-law if she is to
order to restore the liberties and redress the admitted to be disputable or beyond cure. consent to keep up his home for him and
wrongs of his people. So democratic is “Rooky,” in ‘Macbeth'(III. ii. 51), may have permit him the society of his little grandchild.
this young prince that he refuses to take the Northern dialect sense of misty. " How stern and incisive Mr. Norman McKinnel
the coronation oath unless the ceremony Mr. Onions makes it only the adjective of proves as the old autocrat, how successfully he
takes place outside the cathedral so that “ rook. " The mention of
and conveys the idea of masterfulness and relent-
his humblest subjects may be spectators, “ rooky together can be defended. The less purpose, those who have watched this
unless his crown is broken up and sold to interest of the dialectal sense is that it has actor's career will readily understand. The
provide food for the starving and the un. been used in the form “ roky” by Tennyson play and its author should be heard of again.
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