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Last Thursday morning the HERALD issued two editions. Nearly 200 copies of the first edition, containing an account of the final scene in the Guiteau??? trial, were sold in the streets before the Boston papers reached Cambridge. The amount of money realized from this undertaking was, of course, small; but if we have succeeded in showing the public that we can present them with the latest news as soon as they can get it from the Boston papers, we rest well satisfied with our enterprise...
...poor, and during the greater part of the time she was on the stage her action was not nearly so strong as the character demanded. Her enunciation was indistinct in many places, and throughout she made use of an assumed tragic voice that was not natural. In her final scene, however, just before Jocasta leaves the stage for the last time, she gave a fine bit of acting, far above the mediocre, for which she was recalled upon the stage...
...production of the "OEdipus," was but fairly interpreted, the chorus being especially weak; but after the experience of an evening's performance, much improvement will undoubtedly be shown in the subsequent representations. That the performance was received with much favor was shown by the fact that after the final scene the audience remained seated until Mr. Riddle and Miss Cayvan reappeared on the stage, when they were greeted with round after round of applause...
...Cato" and the dramatic tendencies of the age in connection with the rigid principles of "the three unities" in composition. The introduction of this principle into England and its only temporary prevalence there, was discussed at some length, with citations from Dr. Johnson, who seems to have given the final blow to its influence. Mr. Perry remarked upon the close connection of authorship with politics at the beginning of the seventeenth century, and its bad effects on literary production. Fulsome dedications and political services in the way of adulation and satiric composition were the chief claims to patronage...
...King's "Final Issue" of the Register is still meeting with favorable comment, and a large sale. "Our French Visitors," from the same publisher, has also met with great success...