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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
into one, and doing her greatest work in a
play of commanding power ?
As a mere Bostonian, indeed, I should
like to see some uplifting agency brought
to bear upon the taste of my native town.
New York, though cynical and capricious,
and scandaled by a clamor which charges
some of its newspapers with bondage to
some of its theatres, has developed a taste
of some fastidiousness and discrimination.
Boston stays childishly greedy, the pet of
all the theatrical managers, with whom it
ranks as " the first show town" of America,
— the place, that is to say, whose patronage
for every form of theatrical entertainment,
bad and good, is surest and, in proportion
to its size, largest.
A better day for the drama and the thea-
tre in America is sure to dawn. The actors
are readier than the public for a change to
nobler conditions; and the public, now
learning to demand of and for itself the
best things in many departments of life,
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