New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-03-17
JVALLACKS THEATER.
MRS. HOWE'S NEW TRAGEDY, THE
WORLDS OWN

A uagedy-in five act written for the stsge and
succeeding on the stages one of the most potent
Efforts Of human genius. There was Frenchmin
who said he could make fifteen different kinds Of soup
out Of ore pair of boots but he must have the boots
Now the tragic writer Is obliged to up his dish
with much leaner contributions than the Freedman,
and yet all the world expects rstrate tragic soup. In
other Jrds time and narration denied the stage
worker in human ecstacy end agony, and he must
make us believe that time dOes pass, days. weeks,
months or years in the couIse Of three puny hours
,,,, vat the qualities which are evoked out Of two.
thirds of thick novel forming ts descriptive portion
should be concentrated into and 4shed out Of the few
lires given to eacn character to speak. Each
word, then, in E trsgedy must play The part Of
Whole page, and each page that of q chapter.
Tragedy TO other literature dealing with passion
and description, bears the same relation IN
physical quantity, tLGt the macerated, trurated in.
palp.be, iufi itesimsl, homeopathic dose which one
swallows with no questions asked dsmnable faces,
does to jolly, gripng, od-fashioned dose of Epson
-ss and according to the law Of my ery the tragedy
hcmaOp.tby mus: he as eiicacous as the novels. o.
patby. II we ware asked 10 do two things emnently
icu and disssreeable, the fr.t would be to turn
sumners.t without spring board, and the next to
wits tragedy. And then, beside these intrinsic
difficulties Of tragedy wri.irg there is the ghastly
head Of the lovely William Shakespeare we believe, Mr..
Wbie. we spen hi. name right ntruded Ike his friend
Bapquo at the erary feast. Everything that is done
in tsgeJy-wri'iDg is compared to Shakespeare bye
law as inevitable ne ia. which makes omnibus
horse slip Oh Russ pavement every time
he goes up as well as down Broadway. There
s a question, we would remark pnepthe:ically
Tr,,f.. .lsa hon
out the tyIograp hca -gnatuieJ, there s question
WHEELER Shake.pe.re ha, not killed as many good
rsetles as lie wIotei 20 u4ny have died Of fright
p7esenoe Of the exc eton Of their tragedies be-
foe they coud shovel Up tue courage Necessary &c
barrier behind which to fight IN MS ghos.ly company
frtte muses-died In contemplation Of the double
rfu,l sugar owes v. Romeo ard Juliet the ebsttor-
III hate. Of Richard the jul bgsssbsud curses Of
Lar o. circ r. hesyer h e an Ie arth.al roleanto
orc brsic-raC& Of tie Hamlet. Yes, repeat,
= ekespesre among crSmatsts j. equal TO Samson
sn,Dg the P.s;1e, except that ne does not Ai with
Il .w.bone OF an ass. Perhaps better comparison
would be-sId when ore comparison viii not do, one
must try on another or perhep. pair Of thsm-to
compare Shakespeare havoc Of the skeleton TRACE
dies, never tnshed ard ntrodsced into company for
the reasors narrated to the massacre of the prze
babies by Herod-.e say prize babies imply because
the painting Of tat lively by al the old master.
wtich We have considered in Europe represent each
baby Of lie 1890 al least as good in weight and rosy
fpideImis as the cheIubc equalizer who took the pre-
MUM 4, BaIums
Fully believing that this Introduction is sufficiently
long and sdequas to the subject, We proceed from
generalization TO Particularly. Place aHr danes.
Mrs. Howe-whcse name s already painted as bow
OF premise the heavens Of liteTaure-has esssyed
auagedy. Not having the awful difficulties which
deferred Walter Scott from the great art she
has given play in five acts written in pure lyrical
form, stately dessn, ard nte1ectiOn Of comedy,
such q. Shakespeare uses with the porter even 10 Mac