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...John Cordways the head of the Board of Directors, who takes an interest in the minor transactions of the business quite surprising in such a great captain of industry, when reviewing the case refuses to be lenient and the man is definitely dismissed. Everybody from John's flancee, Lady Clarissa, to the office boy, intercedes for the dismissed man, but the president is obstinate in his refusal. The employees call a mass meeting preparatory to strike and the situation appears to be desperate. The dismissed man's sweetheart visits Lady Clarissa, and obtains her promise that her flance shall...
...have not even a nodding acquaintance. Every line of the play indicates rapid working over of very old material to which has been added to give a slight impression of up-to-dateness, a certain amount of modern "atmosphere". Two characters save the play from utter artistic oblivion; Lady Clarissa's aunt, who gives the audience a hearty laugh about once every half hour, and John Cordway's brother, a meek little man who worships, loves, and fears his younger brothers as if he were the Almighty himself...
Another copy of Richardson's "Clarissa" has been reserved at the Library, and Mrs. Barbauld's life of the author is among the books reserved for English...
...pretty Daisy Miller. Yet surely no one would say that the girls of today are not as good as those that our grandfathers loved. If you think that we live in a state of society not as pure as that of a hundred years ago, read Richardson's "Clarissa," or Fielding's "Amelia," or "Tom Jones...
...this misapprehension in reading-men who rush through book after book - novels, sermons, poems, biographies, travels, plays, histories - only that they may feel, when they have finished, that they have read them and are therefore "well-read" men. How different from people in the last century, who perused their Clarissa Harlowe, Rape of the Lock, Pilgrim's Progress, and Shakespeare till they almost knew them by heart, and thoroughly understood and appreciated much that was in them! Would it not be better if we, in our day, could only bring ourselves to give up the one thousand and one others...