The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1900. CLAY. Preparatory Notice «.OF A... (ireat Underwear Sale! It is customary at this season of the year for the farge manufacturers of Underwear to dispose of all the samples that have been used by their traveling men in taking orders for fall and winter underwear. To form an idea of the amount of merchandise sent out @s samples by a combination representing fifteen of the largest knitting mills in the country, each one sending out twenty travelers (some more) throughout the different States and Territories of the Union, one has to take into account the different grades of goods, different styles and colors and va- riety of prices. Such a collection, if placed together, would be sufficient to fill the largest store in the city with samples. I have been fortunate in securing from the agent of the above combination TEN CASES of samples, consisting of Ladies’ and Men's Underwear, in all wool, cotton and wool, and silk and wool; Vests and Pants, Shirts and Drawers and Combination Suits. We have been busily engaged for the past three days in merking and preparing this large purchase for sale, end will have them ready on THURSDAY MORNING This is an excellent chance to buy fine Underwear, and o as to make the sale move rapidly prices WILL BE ONE-THIRD LESS THAN regular. Miners, Motormen, gripmen, conductors and sea- men in need of heavy underwear will find a large stock to select from much cheaper than they have been paying. Extra help has been engaged so as to give prompt nd efficient service. See display in large window to right of entrance. C. CURTIN, 911-913 MARKET STREET. PHONE SOUTH 280. AMUSEMENTS. COLUMBIA 13 | CALIFORNIA THEATER B |A Comicdy]. miex L MATINEE SATURDAY. | ComeEDY. gy ol ot Indorsed by Every Paper in the City. < o FPowerrst v, The PRINCESS and THE BUTTERFLY LAST 3 NIGHTS! FARE X “THE CHR'ST'AN.” Arthur Pinerc's Mos;‘h!';-:ullrul of All of His Final Night, Saturday, January 18 .. THE FRAWLEY COMPANY... KATHRYN CHARLES B. | CO! HEAF KIDDER, HANFORD — moth Production of | CAUFORNIA TflEATE Th::‘y‘-.l'u WINTER'S TALE.” P XT MONDAY. | FAREWELL TO-MORROW, FRI- | DAY. AFTERNOON. | LAST PERFORMANCE THE PEERLESS DIVA, ‘Mme. EMMA NEVADA * In Preparation—"THE LAND." JAMES, THE “The Princess and the RTHUR PINERO'S play, Princess and the Butterfly, an importance as a play that war- rants more specific comment than I gave to it Tuesday night at its first pro- duction by the Frawley company. If re- | viewed from a literary viewpoint it would be variously deficient, for Pinero is not an author of high literary attalnments. Indeed, we must look to-day to France for classic crown. Aslde from Ibsen there are none but & few of M. Rostand's con- freres who have produced anything ex- alted or exalting in a strictly literary sense. How much Hterary merit has to that Mr. Pinero is not a genius. He is clever, “'deuced” clever, clever without a sparkle, clever In an age and way that smacks of the decadent art of Bernard Shaw. He aims to disappoint, to defeat anticipation, to be simple without being obvious; In short, to be unconventional, aifferent. He does not fling epigrams in your face—that would be beneath his dig- nity. His lines are occasionally crisp and meaty, but he studiously avoids any show of brilllancy that would destroy the tone of the whole. His alm is not truth but rather a fictitious naturalness, a false verisimilitude. His characters are not real, but they might be in a place peopled with Pineros. He has availed himself of the satirist's license and made a series of serious caricatures; but they are clever, “deuced,” smugly, calmly clever. Should one read he Princess and the Butterfly,” the play people would develop into certain weu defined types—types that are marked without the contrasts of dis- tinct character and very difficult indeed to be realized by the actors in whose hands they fall. There is more art in the Interjection of such a character as Fay Zuliani in “The Princess and the Butterfly” than in any other stroke he | strikes, for she serves as a foll for all the other parts and admits of skillful handling not only by the actress but by the author. Pinero’s peculiarities are not to be man- aged without more than ordinary intelli- | gence and subtlety, and I can imagine | nott more disappointing than to note the inefficient grasp by the actors of his varied though uniform types as one | might conceive them after having made their acquaintance gradually while read- ing the play. In “The Princess and the | Butterfly” there is an affected absence of climax and the author makes a bid for | the approval of his unearthiy cleverness | 'with every fall of the curtain. He blun- | ders, however, in_the last act, when he | has 'the choice of several endings that | would be characteristically ingenious, but scorns them all to resort to convention- , and brings matters to a close with | his dramatis personnae drawn up in pla- toon front. fwuuld have expected him to drop the curtain on an_empty stage | after the 1l exeunt of Fay and Sir ADVERTISEMENTS. Free to th Ruptured. W. S. 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COKE! COKE Wholesale Dealer snd Shlpper of CFFICE, 18 FOLSOM BT, O playwrights who have a claim to the | do with the fitness of a play for the stage | i ia another question, but the fact remains | To the thousands upon thousands of ruptured | “The Dr. Rice method Is | ARTHUR PINERO'S PLAY AND ITS PECULIARITIES Butterfly” an Important Modern Drama-—Its Merits and Difficulties. A STRIKING EXAMPLE OF DECADENT CLEVERNESS Mme. Emma Navada Is Again Welcomed by Her Friends—Her Second Programme Was an Interesting One and the Singer Responds to Many Encores. How much more uncommon- more ‘‘Pinerotic!” . s ‘What with the pleased enthusiasm of the audience on Monda; night at the homecoming of Emma Nevada and the gracious reception of Tuesday night of | Mary Scott to the ranks of professional- ism, an atmosphere of cordiality perme- George. place! How much . | ates the California Theater just now. It was augmented yesterday afternoon at Mme. Nevada's second recital. Her friends, who are many, seem, or rather | are, glad to see her and she Js content to be so appreciated. To note her pleasure was a pleasure to those who were there at her first appearance and there was something more than an approval of her | art in the applause that greeted her sing- ng of ‘‘Home, Sweet Home.” The con- fidential spirit that existed between the singer and her auditors was evidenced on her part by a graciousness of manner that extended even to an exchange of courtesies between the artist on the stage and the occupants of the boxes. All of which I repeat was pleasant to note. |, The many that came again yesterda: | to hear and applaud were repald witl much good music. Mme. Nevada sang better, I think, than on the first occa- sion, and Mr. Pratt was in better vein and showed a surer grasp. His playing of a Henselt etude was marked by ex- pressiveness and grace. Mme. Nevada sang in her delicate way an aria from David's “Perle de Bresil,” in which she was admirably accompanied on the flute by Mr. Newbauer. For encore she sang “Titania’s Cradle’”” by Liza Lehman, whose music to “The Rubalyat” has had some success. A song by Taubert and a Russian folk song in the vernacular were not of much musical interest, but served to show off to advantage Bemberg’'s “Fee aux Chansons,” which she sang in_ re- sponse to an encore with greater effect | than when she sang the same number on | Monday night. 1t is a rather more varied test of vocalization than some of her | members and in it her attack and method showed to advantage. The same was true of the “Libiamo’ aria from *Trav- jata,” in which Mme. Nevada exceeded somewhat her moderate dramaticism. | For an_encore she sang “Printemps Not veau” by Paul Vidal, who has an inter- est as the composer of “La Burgonde,’” an opera of recent European success. Mr. Blumenberg, upon whose capabil- ity as a cellist 1 have commented be- | fore, gave an intricate ‘“Danse Hollan- dise” and for encore ‘‘Simple Aveu,” by | | Thome. In the latter and also in the “‘Adagio . Pathetique” \)t’ Godard, he played with a svmpathetic quality’ and finesse. On the mechanical side of his art he is above criticism, and this, taken with the soul that he puts in his instrument, makes him what he is—a most distin- guished musician. MIDWEEK NOTES | AT THE THEATERS | At the Columbia “The Christian” may be seen only until Saturday night. Next | week. the James-Kidder-Hanford combi- | nation will make an elaborate presenta- tion of “The Winter's Tale.”” It is the first time the great comedy has been | given in San Francisco for many years, and it should prove an event of interest. The sale of seats opens to-day. The Frawley company is doing good | work in Pinero’s “The Princess and the | Butterfly,” with Mary Scott in the part | of Fay Zullanl. On Sunday night “The | Countess Gucki” will be given. Mary Van | Buren will take Ada Rehan's part in this he attraction for this week at the Al- cazar is “The Mysterious Mr. Bugle.” Next Mominly “Lady Windermere's Fan, a. with Miss May Blayney, an actress from London. This will ‘:e Ke.r first American appearance, [‘Bo-Peep” is nearing its close at Tivoll. Next Mondni/ night Frank Dg‘: | iels’ success, “The Idol's Eye,” will be given, with ‘Alf Wheelan in his original role and two newcomers in the persons of JMiss de Angells and Miss Frances Gra- “Sinbad” will continue at _th until Monday night, when “Don. &2‘1’&‘3 of Irun,” by Dellinger, will be presented for the first time in San Francisco. | rhe sale for A Hot Old Time " {n which > see the popular Ray: the ‘Athambra. this morning. = °Pehs 8t At the Orpheum the Elinore Sisters sre | proving popular, as is also Frank Latona, | Next week Nelstone and Abbey, Hanson and Nelson, Hodges and Launchmere | Frank Coffin, the local tenor, and Mile. Emmy’s dogs. ada will give her third mlglxfl?. ;f":x}?: (fifi&umia Theater to-mor- e sa18 of Seaton ‘seats for the Holmes dReion o Sperman, & Clape vl ngle seats | :’fltl‘l’rb?‘efl;: E]’»‘}}:engx: the same place on and To-night at the Ghutes the | 5 formance will consist of :hm;‘fi“r “:‘r‘ Chang ragtime specialtfes. i i e MME. MULLER'S BENEFIT. Talent From All Theaters Will Assist on Sunday Night. Arrangements have been completed for the entertainment to be given at the Co- | lumbia Theater next Sunday evening for | the benefit of Mme. Ynez Rabbri-Muller, for?e::y lms.nager of the German Theater, and who lost very heavily th i ue%tt‘ Bush-street Tlll‘ea.tes flr;.o“gh e s € programme has LB een arranged as Orpheum—Charles B. Gardner, P dian; Hamilion T u-:rr.u‘.;f.m;.nn?fl:: Cecil Cowles, cl nist; J. C) 5 e P 12 Crosby Jr., Miss Alhambra—An amuding sketch by Baker and ynn. Tivolt—Frank Coffip, tenor; five Ferris Hartman; waltz song, = Anmr oy selections, Julia Cotte. farce, Alcazar stock com- Alcazar—Pleasing 3;:::;'%‘;;;‘: 5‘1’;3}':::’:& Mme. Y. Fabri- tardi Rovey, Benno' Hirsch, : f;:“l‘n It;xanb:.c‘h, Emil Weins and Jacob GOING INTO VAUDEVILLE. Frank Coffin Has Secured an Engage- ment at the Orpheum. Frank Coffin, the well known tenor, will make his debut Sunday night on the pro- fessional vaudeville stage. He hag signed a contract with the Orpheum manuge- ment for several weeks' engagement in this city, which will be followed by a complete tour of the Orpheum circuit. " Coffin's chief ambition is to appear in New York at some of the high class vau- deville theaters, and negotiations are now being conducted with this object In view. As a singer of sympathetic ballads Frank Coffin has won great success in this city. He has a rich, sympathetie yoio: particularly adapted for just such work: en the Tivoli reviv et ¢ S e Geisha’ last Mul- . . year Coffin part and Damiana Bitters | i &t sy —_————— For & superior skin lotion an Spectal | piioio” A Grussists. et o —— . Occidental Kindergarten Election. The Occidental Kindergarten Associa- tion me!flil:ondny a!tel;noo::d and the fol- lowing officers were elected: Presi, Mrs. Miesto; first vice g;reddem, dfig:.' Stein; second vice president, Miss Raf- fael; treasurer, Steinhart; corre- epending secretary, fi'n Elsa N. recording secretary, Miss Carrie Albert Fischer, | MAJCR RUCKER HS CHANEED WTH ROGERS Will Probably Com- mand Presidio. TRANSFER WAS EXPECTED RECORD OF ENLISTMENTS FOR MONTH OF NOVEMBER. B e The transfer of Major Rucker from the Fourth to the Sixth Cavalry has finally been made, and he has been ordered to report to the commanding general of this department. The deal has hung fire so long that it was feared it would fall through and that Major Rogers, néwly promoted to the Sixth Cavalry, who was the one who wanted the transfer, would bave to stay where he was put. It is definitely announced at last, however, that the change will be.- made. Major Rucker is now in this city. He has been on sick leave for some months and he still has another month's leave coming to him, but as he Is already here it is expected he will report for duty at once and take command at the Presidlo. He is the senlor line officer in this depart- ment available for the assignment, ex- cepting Colonel Rawles of the Third Ar- tillery, who is at Angel'Island and seems likely to remain there for some time to come. The report of the adjutant general on the enlistments for the months of No- vember have been published in a circular recently Issued. It shows that the total enlistments from the recruiting stations and from the posts and in the fleld amount to 1857 men. The enlistment sta- tions were responsible for 1503 of these and the posts and regiments for 384. Ninety-one of the total were colored and 625 were mounted. To get that number of men it was necessary to examine 8435 and of these 6548 were rejected. The record is neither high nor low. It includes reports from 104 stations and 114 posts as well as the regiments themselves that always recruit men who apply to them. The stations are scattered all over the country and so are the posts, so the number enlisted represents just what the country may expect for the months to come. It is absolutely necessary that there be sent to the Fhilippines at least 500 men every month, for less than that number will not keep up even the regular organizations over there, so the report of the adjutant general seems to settle the difficulty of maintaining the force In the Phlllci)plnes. Nearly all of the men en- listed, and those being enlisted, are sent out here to the Presidio to be prepared for active service in the islands. Of the regiments for November the Twenty-third Infantry did the best, by recruiting thirty-three men. The Elev- enth Infantry came next, with fourteen men. The order assigning Colonel Freeman to a place on the Tartar and to the com- ( mand of the troops going with her was issued vesterday. SAY WEST AND ELLIOTT TIPPED THE BLACK LIST Prominent Grocers Are Sued. VIOLATION OF TRUST AVERRED e RETAILERS’ ASSOCIATION THE PLAINTIFF IN FACT. —_— A blacklist, issued by the Retall Gro- cers’ Assoclation and intended solely for the information of its members to pro- tect them against those who eat but fail to pay, has resulted in the filing of a suit for $10,000 damages agalinst John Elliott and James West, succeeding partners to the firm of Montgomery & Company, gro- cers and tea merchants at 31 Sixth street, 118 Third street, 1645 Polk street and 500 Hayes street. In the complaint filed yesterday, which charges the defendants with a violation of trust and agreement, with aiding those who sought to pirate the commercial in- formation placed in their hands and with exposing names of people to the gaze of outsiders who had no right to their in- spection, the Interstate Law and Collec- tion Company appears as plaintiff. In fact, however, the Retail Grocers’' Asso- clation, of which the plaintiff is a branch, is the complainant, and, through Attorney Mfif" M. Armstrong, is prosecuting the sul Defendant John Elliott, in addition to his prominence in business circles, {s more widely known as a member of the Olympic Club.” Mr. West, his partner, although not as clo-el{ identified with the social slde of life, Is equally well known, and the charge against them by the Retail Grocers’ Association has occasioned in- tense surprise. Early in the week suit was filed in the United States Court by the association against the Robbins asency to recover $25,000 damages sustained, it was alleged, through the action of the agency in pub- lishing the grocers’ “black list,” which, in some unknown manner, fell into the hands of the management; also, to restrain the agency. from issuing a January rating book, which, the grocers claim, will again be made up from the list of slow payers. Twenty-three firms who subscribed for the services of the agency were made co- defendants in the suit, and, in turn, the plaintiff prayed that they also be re- strained from making use of the rating book of the Robbins concern. . M. Armstrong, attorney for the gro- cers, in proof of the value of the black list cites_the fact that aumerocs firms paid the Robbins Agency $60 a monta to be served each month with a list which he says is merely a rehash of the reports of the Grocers’ Collection Bureau. Mr. Arm- strong also said that he would lay before the Federal Grand Jury proof of the fact that the Robbins Agency printed the word “copyright” on the face of its re- ports, when, in fact, no copyright had been ed. In the complaint filed yesterday against Elliott & West the plaintiff alleges that at great expense it has obtained the com- mercial standing and data wherefrom the mercantile rating on many thousand resi- dents of this city may be deduced. Eight months ago the defendants obtained from the plaintiff the possession of lists and data containing 12,000 names, with ad- dresses and data, wherefrom the desira- bility as credit customers of the parties rated might be gained. The plaintiff al- leges that it gave the lists to the defend- ants for their own exclusive information and for no other xurnose under their ex- press promise and agreement not to di- vulge the same to any person, but to ro- turn the lists on demand. The lists, it is alleged, were placed in the hands of the defendants, the com- plaint_continues, owing to the fact that the plaintiff had full confidence in the honesty and business integrity of the de- fendants. In violation of the trusts so reposed in them, however, and in viola- tion of their good faith, business integ- rity and their promises and agreements, and for the purpose of Injuring the cstah: lished business of the plaintiff and of ronderlnq aid and profit to others desir- ous of pirating thé commercial informa- Frank; | against Frank, | costs. tion, plaintiff alleges that it has bee; & formed that the defendants secretly"and without the knowledge or consent of the laintiff transferred their lists to the obbins Mercantile Agency, “an organc ization about to embark in the mercan- tile report business.” By reason of the defendants' alleged violation of the trusts and confidence {m- posed in them, plaintiff prays judgment them 'for $10,000 damages and | SHAKESPEARE'S LA ST GREAT TRAGEDY Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. POPULAR STUDIES IN SHAKESPEARE. Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Dowden, Dr. Willlam J. Roife, Dr. Hamilton 'W. Mable, Dr. Albert S. Cook, Dr. Hiram Corsen, Scudder and others. X. CORIOLANUS. The Date of the Composition. There is no external evidence as to the date of *‘Coriolanus,” but we know from the proportion of light endings and from the characteristics of diction and style that it is one of Shakespeare’s later plays. 1t is evidently one of that group of trag- edies In which the dramatist went deeper than ever did plummet sound into the hu. man heart. Coriolanus, the man, companion of Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello and Antony.. Commentators are warrant- ed in placing this play next to “Antony and Cleopatra” by reason of the Roman backgreund and {ts general characteris- tics. It is the last of the great tragedies, for “Timcn of Athens,” although of later date, does not deserve to rank with the highest. We may then say with Dowden that the date of the play is 1608, or per- haps a little later. Source of the Plot. Lowell sald of Chaucer that whenever BY SHAKESPEARE'S PARENTS IN , WHEN THEY EXECUTED A DEED CONVEYING THEIR INTEREST IN TWO HOUSES IN SNITTER- FIELD. is a | Dr. Isase N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. From that particular fault: the dram of eale Doth all the noble substance of a doubt To his own scandal. I know there has been a decided reac- tion in recent years against the tendency to treat Shakespeare's tragedles from an altogether subje standpo Sspe= clally is this true meo and Juliet.” f “Hamle: We are believing m: | and more that the tragedy consists in the | one casze in the conflict between Hamiet {and his environment, and in the other play to view Romeo and Juliet as “star- crossed lovers” whose happiness is blast ed by the fury of their two houses. An yet there is something else in the old erit | cism, too: somehow Hamlet can't adin himself to circumstances; with a greal will, a saner judgment and a more fix faith he could do otherwise. After there is “the dram of eal in his nature when viewed from the absolute standpoint | (and that is Shakespeare's standpoint, for ‘hP was indeed one of God's spies, and, as | Meredith suggests, the recording angel himseif might have taken his pen). The tragedy In “Corfolanus” arises from the ‘“‘dram of eale” In Corfolanus’ nature | Bhakespears does not express his own views through Cori- olanus as_Haazlitt thought. With all his power and many magnificent qual tles of mind, stands as if man were author of hi self and had no k He lacks the touc of nature that makes the whole world kin—that sym- pathy that _so charms us in Bru- tus. Corlolanus has much, undoubtedly, to vex him—one ai- most _sympathizes ) 1 with him as thinks of the worl into which he |Is thrown, a world that will but aggra- vate his faults. T fickle populs had once hail as the savior country and now curses him: the av- aricious army that in the war against the Volscians seeks to plunder before the battle is over; above all, that brace of demagogues, the tribunes—these are enough to call forth into greater promi- nence his _natural cynicism and misan- thropy. Hamlet finds the world out of joint — the very worst possible world for him; Romeo and Jullet, with thelr in- tensely passionate natures, come fa to face with a co conventional worl and Coriolanus mu be brought in con tact with the com- he found anything addressed to Geoffrey Chaucer he took it and made the most of it. Shakespeare must have found a great many things addressed to him in North's translation of ‘“Plutarch’s Lives" (pub- lished in 1579), for out of it he got the ma- terial for “Julius Caesar,” *“Antony and Cleopatra, “Timon of Athens" “Corfolanus.” He was not at all careful about adopting the scenes and incidents; sometimes he even used the very lan- guage of Plutarch. It would be a profit- able task for a student of ‘‘Coriolanus’ to take down his North's Plutarch and compare it with the play. He would be struck by the decided similarity of the two, and if he has fine ears and what De Quincey calls an understanding heart he would have a valuable lesson in distin- guishing between the dramatist and the historian, between the myriad-mindedness of Shakespeare and the limited range of Plytarch. Hazlitt’s Mistake as to the Play. Hazlitt, who was at times a discrim- inating critic of Shakespeare, was very wide of the mark when he sald with his characteristically revolutionary _ spirit: ““The whole dramatic moral of ‘Coriola- nus’ is that those who have little shall have less, and that those who have much | | shall take all that others have left. people are poor, therefore they ought to be starved. They are slaves, they ought to be beaten. They work hard, therefore they ought to be treated | like beasts of burden.” When Hazlitt wrote this he must have had in mind the tragecy of the French revolution, of which he was one of the belated prophets. He might have come from a meeting at Godwin’'s or a conversation with Shelley. Such personal criticism is of a kind with Coleridge's criticism of Hamlet. It is too much after the order of early German criticism that sought to reduce all of Shakespeare's plays to certain moral truths that the dramatist tried to incul- cate. There are many striking things said in this play about the mobs, just as there are in “Jullus Caesar.” But I doubt if Shakespeare himself understood fully the nature of the struggle between the plebe- ians and the patricians. not make as clear in the play as one might expect the issue between them. which shows that Shakespeare did not care much himself for local coloring and evidently did not wish to teach certain facts about the plebeians. It is always dangerous to say that Shakespeare teaches anything; certainly he does not identify himself with Coriolanus in this play. e looks at him from the same ab- solute standpoint from which he views the | populace. The Character of Coriolanus. No, in this play we do not have a stud; of political parties in Rome; the “study,” If we may use that term in an undidactic sense, s Corlolanus himself. It is his figure that dominates every scene in the play. He is a character of herolc propor- tons. The oftener one réads the play the more he feels that here is one of ake- speare’s most impesing characters. He is a man of power and in every way is the protagonist of the drama. Hamlet is not more essential to the play that bears his name than is Coriolanus to “Coriolanus.” One may not admire him in many ways, and no one is drawn to him as a friend, but there is something about him that is gigantic and wonderful. He is a character of the early Roman world not weakened as Caesar was by personal infirmities, or as Antony was by love and lust, or as Brutus by an inability to cope with practical affairs. Coriolanus is a tower of strength. His body is of gigantic propor- tions; he can fight against an entire arm; when once within the walls of the enemy his voice is thunderlike, so that his ene- mies shake as if the world were feverous and did breathe. One knows the sound of Marcius' tongue from every meaner man. His will is imperious to warn, to threaten and to command. He carries about with him the badge of his strength even when disguised as a peasant. 'he servants of Aufldius recog- nize him as no common man. “My mind gave me his clothes and made a false re- port of him.” ‘““What an arm he has! He turned me about with his finger and his thumb as one would set a top.” “I knew his face that there was something in him. He is simply the rarest man in the world.” Whether talking with the mob, fighting battles or speaking to his soldiers he is always the same heroic figure: He is their god; he leads them like a thing Made by some other diety than nature, That shaves man better. One thinks of him in connection with Swift, whose fall, to quote the words of Thackeray, was like t of an empire. “He wants noxmnfi of a god but eternity and a heaven to throne in. The Central Point in the Tragedy. Now, in what does the tragedy consist? In “Hamlet” there is a passage that might be taken as the keynote to many of Shakespeare’s tragedies (i, 4)— So oft it chances in particular men Thag for some Vicjous mole 0f nature in them e B 1l v oty v el | Shall in the general censure take corruption and | The | 20 therefore | He certainly does | mon people whom he loathes and the tribunes whom he detests. The traz edy is due partly to this stubbo conflict between the people and himself, but more especially to the inner nature of the hero. In act II, gcene 2, the officers discuss Corfolanus in a very interestl | way and from the proper point of v One of them says that there have been many great men that have flattered t yPeople, who ne’er loved them, thus the | indifference and scorn of Marcius. The other answers, with rare wisdom and in- sight: ‘“He seeks their hate with greater devotion than they can render it him. and leaves nothing undone that may fully d cover him their opposite. Now to see to affect the malice and displeasure of tt people s as bad as that which he dislikes, to flatter them for their love.” Coriolanus has the contempt for the fickleness of the mob that all thinking people have, but he is apt to cor that all people who are not patriciar | beneath “his notice and worthy of tumely. con- | Menenius has no use for them | either, but he laughs and jests with them in his hearty good humor. Volumnia treats them with cold indifference, but | Coriolanus loses his dignity in his biind rage against them. For once he is itke | & child, he who is generally a glant. One | wonders If the same man can be at once | 80 powerful and so weak, To this pride assionate hatred of the people he | sacrifices the happiness of his family and | the prosperity of his country, and finally Is willing to lead an army against the 1ynlls of Rome. It is this weakness, this rift within the lute that causes the tragedy of the play—‘“the fallure of a | great soul to recognize the bonds that bind him to other men.” An Important Scene. There are few more impressive scenes in Shakespeare than act V, scene 3, of “Corfolanus.” Coriolanus has with Aufid- | fus led the Volscian army into the very gates of Rome. Cominius has pleaded | with Corlolanus only to be dismissed with “his speechless hand,” and then Mene- | mius, his most faithful friend, has con- | jured him to pardon Rome and his peti- | tionary countrymen, but is told that he speaks to no purpose. At last Virgilia and Volumnia and the little son of Coriolanus come to his tent. Corfolanus, with hatred toward the popu- lace still in his soul and with the desirs for revenge burning within him, says as he sees them coming: But, out, affection! All bond and privilege of nature, break! He cannot but feel the tles of the old love and kneels before them. Then be- | gins the dialogue between Volumnia and Corfolanus, the former rising to the height of ‘motherly love and the most ardent patriotism (she is indeed the no- blest Roman of them all), the latter strongly maintaining his point for awhile, | only to give way before the final appeals of his mother (11, $4-125, 131-182). Thou shalt no sooner March to assault thy country than to tread— Trust to it, thou shalt not—on thy mother's womb, That brought thee to this world. ¢ ¥ s goins Sty ol o Come, Jet ns go: This fellow had a Volscian to his mother, His wife s in Corfolo, and his child Like him by chance, vet give us our dispatch; 1 am hush'd until our city be afire, And then I'll speak a little. He cannot stand in the face of that and arranges a peace between the two nations, only to meet his fate at the hands of the treacherous Aufidius. Ha is grand in death, “the most noble corse that ever herald did follow to his urn.” It is a pity that one cannot hear along with the dead march a eulogy by one nobler than Aufldius—such a one as An- tony pronounced apon Brutus or Hora~ tio upon Hamlet. S B Trinity College. S— Miller & Lux Corporation. The Miller & Lux Corporation yesterday elected J. K. Prior of this city to fill the vacancy on the board of directors caused by the death of Jesse 8. Potter. The af- fairs of the corporation are extensive and important, and on the board Mr. Prior's knowledge of large transactions and land values and his sound business judgment commended him to the favor of stock- holders. —_——— No Diplomas for Superintendents. City and county superintendents of schools are not entitled to life diplomas because of their terms of service. Deputy Attorney General W. M. Abbott has given State Superintendent T. J. Kirk an opin- fon to this effect. 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