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Mr. Coates, Amateur Of IMPROVEMENT
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finkl scene which was, an a'rule, the joy of all beholders.
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* LITERATURE
An eyewitness describing this Waning Popularity In
pregnant ending of the "play, ex- claims: "Who shall describe the But, alas, matter were not al-grotesque agonies of the dark ways so easy for him. On the seducer, bis plastered hair escaping ninth of December, 1811, he appear from the comb that held it, and the ed at the Haymarket Theatre in the dark crineous cordage that flapped part of the gay Lothario in Rowe's upon his shoulders in the convul tragedy, "The Fair Penitent," and sions of his dying moments, and the
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America, says Mr. H. L. Men- his hands tragedy lost all her cries of the people for medical aid gloom. The occasion was that of a to accomplish his eternal exit? cken, the Editor of the American benefit performance in aid of the Thus, when in his last throes his Mercury, continues to labour In widow Fairbur, and how huge were coronet fell, it was miraculous to the literary doldrums that began the crowds that besieged the doors see the defunct arise, and after he
favour.
ap-
of the theatre, eager to see the gift- had spread a nice handkerchief on aix or eight years ago but several ed amateur, the owner of the curri- the stage, and there deposited his signs of improvement are cle, the owner of the diamonds! headdress, free from all impurity, parent
At least one thousand persons philosophically resume his dead con
One is that the popularity of were turned away from the box en-dition; but it was not yet over, for trance alone, whilst many people the exigent audience, not content "gushing" books about Russia, with money to spend besieged the that when the men were dead, why depicting it a Utopia, is dying stage-door and offered as much as there's an end, insisted on a repeti-out, and that more realistic writ five pounds for a single admission tion of the awful scene, which the ing on the subject is coming into to go behind the scenes. Not an highly flattered corpse executed three separate times, to the gratifi- empty seat could be found.
Another is the waning vogue. We read that "Amongst the per-cation of the cruel and torment-
for romantic books seeking sons of rank and fashion present loving audience."
On this occasion the spectators, reconcile science and theology on [this evening to witness Mr. Coates's
rendering of the character of Lot- by their eagerness to annoy, cheat- hario were the Duke of Brunswick, ed themselves of this magnificent the basis of denaturizing science, the Duke of Devonshire, the Portu- death-scene, for, having yelled them and the appearance of more ra- guese Ambassador, the Earl of Kin-selves hoarse, they found that Mr. tional discussions of the subject. "I am in hopes," he said in noull and family, Viscount Castle Coales was unable to compete with reagh, Baron de Geramb, Sir God-them, and the curtain fell, to rise his discussion of literary trends, "that this movement towards frey Webster, Sir Charles Coote and no more.
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We may imagine the feelings of Mr. Contes was now in a fair way presently in the political and Mr. Coates as he approached that of becoming a lion. No drama economic fields.
"For four or five years past crowded entrance to the theatre, given in ald of charity was complete How great was the British love of without him, even though his pre-we have been flooded with books dramatic art, how great the friend-sence alone meant that the drama whooping up various new liness of the nobility!
must come to an untimely end, or, preposterous economic theories; How lustrous were the leaves of in any case, that disaster must en-including two or three kinds of that laurel crown
which awaited suc. There were, however, one or stale and watered Communism, drew to and some of them have apparent- him, how deafening the plaudits of two performances which the audience! Alas! This was but their close without any actual blood-ly made such powerful impres- another booby trap laid by Fortune shed, however threatening the atti-sions on the gentlemen who pro- fess to govern us that efforts are] -or, rather, by Mr. Conten's faith-tude of the audience might be.
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ful and Indefatigable companion, Misfortune!—for no sooner had the Baron de Geramb appeared in a box proaching the summit of his ambi- 21st Feb. than a large portion of the audience tion, the dream which has loyal and quickly. It will be terminated, as it was begun, by literati. So- snobbish soul had took a dislike to him, and showed innocently
called practical men believe that this by hissing him and by loud and cherished for, so long.
For, after they run the world, but they are discordant screams, though
burrowings, mistaken. The ideas which anl- other many members of the audience thought fectly frank trumpetinga for atten- books."
which were only equalled by his permate them always come out of that this was bad-mannered conduct tion, Mr. Contes, on the eleventh of
Mr. Mencken said that for and a friend of the Prince Regent, General Baker to the Prince Regent science, literary activity in
February, 1813, was presented by some reason as yet unknown to and applauded him so vigorously at the Royal levee, that in the end their opponents re-
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