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...developed his famous plays. He adhered to the Chronicles in so far as there is a stratum of historical fact in all of the dramas of which we are speaking; he departed from them by the addition of characters and scenes of his own invention, which in some cases almost obscure the facts which underlie them...
Japanese fencing is almost unknown in this country, but there is little doubt that if it were introduced it would become popular. The contestants are so thoroughly protected that there is much more apparent fierceness manifested than there is in European fencing, and there is hardly a muscle of the body that is not brought into play...
...Copeland complained that outside of Jonson's ballad, "Drink to me only with thine Eyes," almost no works of the minor dramatists of the Elizabethan age are read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...
There are many reasons which make Hayward easier to begin with than the other Elizabethan dramatists. He is strangely modern, and takes almost after the realist of today, telling tales of home life in a homespun way. There is no poetry in his plays, and in this respect he is like Massinger. The latter is very skillful in his dramatic effects. His play, "A new Way to Pay old Debts," is the nearest approach to Shakespeare we have, with the single exception of "She Stoops to Conquer." But wonderful as Massinger and the others may be in their separate ways...
...information has been obtained from some three hundred replies received to a circular of inquiry sent to public officials and other citizens of all cities in the United States of over twenty thousand inhabitants, as well as of many smaller places. The data thus obtained carry the question down almost to date. The different states are separately considered, and in each case is given the number and condition of the unemployed, and the measures adopted by the municipalities, by organizations and individuals, for providing temporary employment or other relief...