Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1864-03-03
Hnrner,a lIaRnzIne.

AAEpSE'6 Magazine.
Harpers Monthly tor March contains the
following articles: Scenes in the war Of
lsl2-VIII.i Washington aud Baltimore.
10 Illustrations; Alas; The Norwich Ar
morie, Is illustrations; John Heathburn's
Tiue-coneIuded, The Small Honso at
Arlington; Mental health; Ralph Farm
hams Romance; Women in Comedy; The
Stomach and Civilization; Netty's Tomb.
Stone; Mrs. Braddon's Home; In Memo
RAN; ". Il. Thaekersy, with portrait;
Historical Contrast; Brscken Hollow; By
the Sea Shore; With a Flag of Truce;
Ktuy Dayton; Part of the Prizes; Monthly
Record OF Current Events; EDITORS Easy
Chair and Drawer; Fashions for March.
The publishers announce new novel By
Dickens, to appear simultaneously With
its publication in England. This will be
great feature OF this magazine, and add
immensely to its time honored attractions.
The papers in the present number, so far
as We have had time to examine them. are
interesting. The one entitled 'Woman in
Comedy" contains many quotabIe para.
graphs The writer begins by character.
king the comic play of the Restoration as
"frankly and cOnfessedly wicked, p and rs
placing woman on the stage in the most
lameutabIe plight. This vulgar type of
woman has not entirely disappeared. The
writer says:
The character of Lady TeaBla, which is
but faint aud tolerably modest copy of
her predecessors, was the last specimen of
II upon the London boards. The pertinA
city with which it was adhered to for so
long period by the dramaI!sts is the more
noteworthy because nowhere to a greater
extent than in Euglend have the domestic
virtues been valued, aud the priceless ness
Of female purity acknowledged. There il
a VasSalags TO the French theatre now. az
there was q century and half ago; but
We put our imported wares through puE-
CATION, and make the Partisan demireps,aIl
die Of consumption 10 an Odor of sanctity.
The question is asked Why the nine
tenth century gives US no good plays.
We quote:
Within the memory Of man no fne trag.
edy has been produced, if We except ''Top,"
which 10 OF the Greek, Grecian; aud no fne
comedy, il We except London ASSURANCES"
which is Of the French, Frenchy. No 9TH
sr department Of the Fine Arts appears to
have been smitten by this palsy. Our
painters give us great and original pictures
our sculptors beW from the marble fresh
forms Of life and loVelinsss-our lyrical
poets are the finest since the age of Eliza.
beth-Our music is, as music should be,
full of the spirit of the time-onr prose
fiction Is ineOmParabiy fine, 10 spite of its
morbid anatOmyi but in the midst of all
this Protuse wealth, the poor drama stands
naked aud hungry, with none toclothe her
In the garments of the time, aud with moth.
ing TO rekindle the flame OF her suspended
Vitality. We go 70 see new plays, and
come away with a sad feeling that What in
them WAS good was hardly new. We
must content ourselves with acres of paint
ed cloth, and new petticoats tor the Gctres.
sesi while, If there is little Shakespeare to
save APpesrancesT We heartily wish that
there had been no Shakespeare at all.
The want Of the age, says the writer, is
in comedy; that We have women "Who are
under the dominion, or doomed to be under
It, of love, which Is the paramount passion
and prime necessity of the FEMININE ma
sure, and not of hate, which defOrms and
detssts it-VOmeu whose logic is in their.
Laughing eyes. and who are iupious by
soft PsrsuAsiOn-womeu of that geutle Wit
which gives pleasure 70 itS objects BY the
very pain which it infiets-womsn Oh the
world who are Jet unworthy, aud who
move through the brilliant scenes of socie.
~ without being unsexed by.-its -cosrup.
tions-WOmsn whose native grsees have
been cultivated and not conquered by con:
vsntiOualItiss, aud who, smile weak in all
chasts aud honorable concession. are ike
the liOuess dsspOiled Of her young when
tempted by sensual advaaCss-womeu
the virtuOus need not fear TO personals,
upon whose persOuatiSu the modest need
not fear to look
BE thipkS that Thackeray- could bnva
written up to- the standard, and that Diek.
ems may yet do so, but he has great eonfi
dsnOe that women will Jet write The plays
so much needed. We quote:
IL is not too much TO believe that If ~
men wrote more frequently for the theStrs
they would impGrt to its exhibitions Soma.
thing ottheir own grece, purity aud, ele-
ganoei and il ts certain that 1t the PRESENT
time, under hardly any temptation to cater
TO the coarse aud unthinking, would they
venture upon the employmeuta OF those
hcenhons bats OF applause which men are
not ashamed 70 use. A WomansWe enough
nurtnrsd to write we'll, 10 one hStiliEely 10.
coarsely, or 20 barter her modest repntA-
ton for the applansiys ehpcktes of the base.
She would rather seek 70 vindieaie the dig.
nifty OF her seq BY presenting It IN Is most