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...these questions is so great, inasmuch as so many sources have to be consulted, that only those who make a specialty of such subjects can afford to give them the necessary time. Such a course of lectures, giving a close idea of the conflicting views, would furnish a groundwork on which many could form clearly defined opinions who, without such help, might drift as circumstances determined into narrow and prejudiced views...
PARK THEATRE. "David Garrick." Robertson's play, "David Garrick," the groundwork of which he found in an old French drama of the same name, is one of the most pleasing of his works. It abounds in bright and humorous passages, and at the same time, there is a pathos, running through the two principal parts, of an exceedingly refined quality. To say that Mr. Sothern brings this out to its fullest extent, is simply to repeat that he is a finished actor and a gentleman. The support is not very good, the tendency being to overact the comic parts...