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REMINISCENCES OF
A DRAMATIC CRITIC
By Way of Introduction
critic who presumes to write
THEhis reminiscences, and therefore to
invite the implication that he be-
longs to the past rather than to the present,
may find many a coigne o' vantage in his
position when he comes to hold it with
pen and ink against the public. He is not
required to practice much self-restraint :
garrulit}^ is expected, if not desired, of
him, as " part of his defect ; " nobody will
disrelish his memoirs if their occasional
flavor is a pleasant sour ; and in dealing
with dramatic artists — at least with those
who are dead or otherwise gone — he will
be allowed free play for the knife of his
criticism. Moreover, he is in a situation
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