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...Boucieault came to practical naught in "The London Assurance." She is really no more than a forerunner and a portent. Her history is interesting to the biographically minded and to specialists. This version of it shows up incidentally but rather well, the stodginess of the reviewers in the earlier nineteenth century, the nearly complete lack of public taste, and the banality of stagecraft Despite its deft writing, it is a depressing little pamphlet, revealing more than one likes to see of the awful depths to which even the bravest and best of English dramaturges have sunk...
...book makes one sad, for almost all the wines mentioned by the author as ministers to his Dionysian joy were nineteenth century vintages, and have long since fulfilled their noble destiny. But some will derive comfort from the opinion that "Gin. . . is a very excellent, most wholecome, and, at its best, most palatable drink"; others from the realization that the twentieth century has had its good wine years, that Saintsbury learned by experiment, that there is as much ahead as in the past. Comfort will be derived, too, from the sparkle and rest radiating from every word...
...future. Remember that Aristotle wrote his politics as a guide to Greek City-Statesmen while tutoring Alexander who was to murder the <> he loved so deeply. Professor Holcombe is willing to offer his knowledge of practical politics to the middle class, which is capable of murdering all of the nineteenth century liberalism which he knows and loves so well...
...name but a handful of brilliant minds outside the scope of the course. With too much time devoted to men of the past, there is no room for anything beyond Kant, with the result that the student gets the idea that philosophy ends at the opening of the nineteenth century. He knows nothing of Spencer or Nietzche or of contemporary schools, and so is given little which is of value in trying to understand present-day thought...
...have good actors nowadays, but I don't believe you will find an individual actor as great as some of those of the nineteenth century. You will find more good performances given in more good plays, but no single interpretations that reach the greatness so familiar to the leading actors and actresses of the past century. The trouble with the modern actor is that he has been inadvertently cast into a mold, from which it is practically impossible for him to escape. It can be summed up in one phrase 'once a cop, always a cop.' He does a part...