The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-07
Rnre Morks or NnsIIsh DramntI,ts.

Atan auction sale IN London last month copies
of early plays were bought at high prices. The
Times gives a list:-T Preston:-Lamentabl
Tragedie, mixed 1ul OF pleasant mIrth, contain
ing the lie OF Cambses, King Of PerCia; 4tO,
black letter, f22. The Joyiall Crew, or the
Devil Turned Ranter, being a character Of the
Roaring Ranters of these times represented in a
comedie; trontIspleCe: l65l &6 los Shake
speare; A MidsOmmer Nights Dreame; first edi
ton (accordmg to Mr.. HalltwelD, fine copy. IN
green morocco, printed by James Roberts, 1900;
44l 10. The excellent History OF the Merchant
OF Venice, etc; first edition; fine copy, IN red
morocco, printed by j. Roberts, 1000: f3l.
The first part of the True and Honorable History
OF the life of Sir John Oldcastle, the good Lord
Cobham; first edition. Printed for Il. Preston,
1000. From HenslOwe's Diary it appears thar
this play is enormously attributed 10 SHAKE
speare; II was in reality written IN 1899 by Mum
day, Drayton, Wilson, and Hathaway. This
edition is now rare; the present copy reached
as high as GIG. History of the Lite ana Death
OF King Lear, and his Three Daughters, etc.;
very rare; printed for Nathaniel Butter, 1908:
G3I. Shakespeare, Most Pleasant and Excellent
Conceited Comedy OF Sir John Falstatfe and the
Merry Wives of Windsor, with the Staggering
Valne of Ancient Pistol aud Corporal Nym;
fine copy, in red morocco extra, printed for
Arthur Johnson 1913, &26. Shakespeare, a
Yorkshire Tragedie, not so new as lamentabe
and true; printed for T. Preston, 1919; very
rare: IL guneas. John Still, Bishop OF ith
and Wells; Ryght, Pithy, Pleasant, and (s{c)
Merle Comedie, intytuled Gammer Gurtou's
Nedle playd; on stage not longe ago in Christes
Coledge in Cam6rldge: black letter; 10 gulneas.
An ERRoR.-The impression is very general
| that drunkenness is exceedingly rare in coun-
tries where vines are grown and wine is made.
| A California paper recently stated, per contra,
that all the proprietors of vineyards in one
| grape-growing county of that State were
drunkards; and the following description of
vineyard festivities, by one who went to see
| them, with his fancy full of pictures he had
seen on the stage, is to like eject
! "Still beset with the memories of the opera
| house l asked If the day was not to close with
| tne feast and dance, but l was answered that
| All were so Wearied with their work that they
| would seek an early sundown repose in unro-
| mantle slumber. Towards evening, however
| whether IL was the effect of the VapOr of the
! new wine which filled the atmosphere, or the
! dfinking of the old which flowed freely every
| where. or merely the natural exhilaration
| which comes with the satisfaction of having
| completed a hard days labor, observed grow
| ING Excitement. Men and women were arguing
| loudly and energetlcally and the rude sWains
were philandering with and kissing the sun
| burnt daughters OF lal or / found myself
too becoming the objec. OF warmth OF afiec-
tion would have prefer red TO have dispensed
| with. BraWny arms, stained red with Wine to
the shoulder, were wound about my neck, and
stuffy hands sticky with grapeJuice thrust into
my grasp"