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As, in fine, where the tragic drama terminates with the
thrilling
_catastrophe of the narrative. Many jewels of
thought and imagery, many flowers of truth and sen-
timent, are lavishly scattered through the five acts of
Strathmore. Several of these lines are singularly
epigrammatic, and are worthy of being invested with
the immortality of proverbs. For example, it is
nobly said by Hamilton, act 1, sc. 1 :
" The road to freemen's rights is o'er their gravel"
Strathmore himself is not less sententious, when
he exclaims, act v., se. 2 :
" He has no future who betrays his past."

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Our dramatist has occasionally in his present work
been particularly felicitous in his descriptive
" touches." In this manner Keith describes the
battle with the men of Claverhouse—
" Some sank in flight;
Others with upraised hands, whose happy souls
O'ertook :bar mounting prayers."
With the same vivid forcefulness of diction, Katha-
rine calls aloud in her agony—

" My sense drifts helpless on this tide of horror!"
And again, when talking of the lingering anguish of
her sorrows, she_says, with such striking energy—
" 'Tis said that dreims
Curdle an age in moments."
Here, moreover, is an expression which shows that
Mr. Marston is no inattentive observer of human
nature. Brycefield says of Isabel Lorn—
" She has given her hand,
And then unclosed it with such lingering touch
As made itg farewell hinder than its claw."
Bitter retorts are not wanting to impart emphasis to
the dialogue. In answer to a remark of Brycefield,
Hamilton exclaims—
" Betray! You think of Brycefield
And speak of Strathmore."
Also, where Isabel replies to an assurance from
Brycefield, that she need " dread no violence"—
" We do not dread, sir,
The thing we scorn."
Of conceits, there are no lack in the more lively por-
tions of the drama. Here is a very dainty one, grace-
fully expressed :
" I wore my lovers
Even as my robes—a change for every mood.
To-day I put on scarlet—in a soldier;
A courtier—for my purple velvet, next;
The third, a skirt of spangles—in a wit ;
You frown again! nay, love for common wear
There's none like that drab constancy of thine l"
How impassioned can be the love passages in these
compositions of, Mr. Marston; may be conjectured
from that one remark of Strathmore's to Katharine,
where he is lamenting that he may never more
," Gaze on that unit which could fill for me"
A vacant world—yourself 1"
Of the interpolated drolleries which are employed as
a foil to the tragic incidents, those can speak who
have heard Buckstone, in the character of Roland,
drawl forth—
" Avoid thee I seest thou not I am a vessel I"
The antagonists of capital punishment might cavil at
the phrase,

" Murder's doom is death."

but the millions of Hungary, and all the most heroic
races in the world, would testify with one voice to
the truth of that beautiful saying—
" Though freedom's hosts
Bleach the green earth with death, that cause is safe
That hath its chief above!"

Equally beautiful too is that sentence—
" Sure, the courts of heaven
Are peopled with the outcasts of this world!"
Other fragmentary indications of the intellectual
beauty squandered over the five acts of Strathmore
cling to our recollection. What we have already ex-
tracted will, nevertheless, amply attest the imaginative
richness of the production. We congratulate Mr.
Marston with all cordiality on the signal success of
his last dramatic creation.

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
COWES, JUNE 22.

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