, 1877-09-30
The Summer Pleasurers at Home
--." Pink Don1inoes."
Ir. Coghlan as Great a Favorlte with
the Girls as Rignold.
The tsXausflty but Nice" Moral Of
Tue Piece---Starr Ring and
His Book.
Another Attack upon Edgar Poe--A 0ele-
brated Woman Prepares to Smash
the Assailant.

B0sTDN, Sept 25-The cold snap OF the pas
week has scut the summcr-plcasurcrs nom
from the seaside and mountains in great mum
bcrs Newport still holds good many OF IT.
lovers who have houses Of their own, and151a
haut also Keeps its "cottagers-" But the ma
ioritv OF the people have flown back to their cit,
loucs,-that great majority which bestoWs itscl
In hotels aud boarding-houscs, and which send'
its children to schools that open their door:
on the first and second week O
September. There is no portion o
the great city community that understand:
more completely what day and hour " the sea
son y rccommences than the theatre people
And If one did but look at the play-bills it would
be sufficient enlightenment Of the seasons
opening. The Z. Boston, the " Globe" the
Museum, the Boylston, and the Howard
Athcu;rum are all in full blast, and offering all
manner OF attractions Chanfrau at the
Boston with bis st kit.'' aud at the Globe the
irish Cocl1an, with other mcmbers.of the New
York Union Square company, in "Pink Dom
inoes,'' and at the Museum Baby" with the
regular Museum company, are playing to full,
and at the Globe to crowded, houses. The
latter fact is owing to two reasons, say the
cynically wise. First Of which is that the play
Is known to be what these cynics call - naughty
but nice -; the second reason, that it is the
only entirely new bill in the city. But after
The first night OF the play there was an
added reason, il one may Judge from
Dame Rumor, and this, in the popularity OF
Mr. James Coghlan with the feminine part Of
The audience. Why, he is run after in the
,ame absurd manner that Ricnold was,'' said
D1sGUsrED YOUNG GENTLEMAN
20 me Yesterday. II this is truc l sincerely
none that it is III spite Of the part which 31r.
Coc1ilan so "artisticaliy" sustains in the play
Artistic, Is say, and admirable, aud true to the
life which it depicts. But what 4 life! That
where Love has no part nor parcel to elevate
and dignity. but instead the rule Of idle fancy
and intrigue. There is not touch OF real
passion anywhere in the play. It is essentially
cne OF those productions that are fully ex-
pressed by that slangy term, " naughty but
nice,''-1 mean as that term is understood with
relish By tue detcstaby large class Of people,
am sorry to say, to whose taste this play ap-
pcals. Lied Astray,n and others Of that
sensational school, with their Objectionable
plots, arc white and clean and Of high
mora! order aud influence in comparison, be-
rause they are founded upon respect for moral
Ity, and 20 to show in their Developments the
wrytchciness which follows departure from
The straight and narrow paths They are, moro
,Ntr, pcr1ucate1 with real emotion, serious pas
sion, however perverted. But in this airy COM
c.ly there is nothing witty and funny that does
not turn Oh the :ilicule Of const2ncv and tidcli-
ty. L~'ly -naGgic, the woman OF the world OF
tiic piece, gives the 1nilnus Of the whole thing
Eheu she says TO Hrs. Greythorat in the CONVEX
satlOn concerning their respective husbands,
only difference Is between the dog that is found
out and the dog that isn't" And little Hrs.
ti,rsthorue, with her Ignorance and Innocence,
though the only character which represents
goodness, is, after all, but the foil to bring out
the others,-thc
NAUGHTY BUT NICE
Tsatures who plot, and plan, and spend any
t1nollrt OF energy in the magnificent occupation
# seeking !1it1e intri=ues with little aud low
motives, where deceit is the zcSt and spite. and
:'c hcloolin@ vi unc innocent heart the Triumph.
When t,t,e has real love oi the drama, and !
belief in it the of Interpretation Of lie
Tor true and line PURPOSES, it i Luniliatlng to
ind III this day pieces oi such low ami ililt.sy
purpose as This. One feels little guilty, too
II remembering. stout uc.cnSe AMI protest
k@:.il,st those WHO have attached the stage rs
n.nnras. | confess myself 1ur tic hour entire
y in t.,.> tax. l llayc Fc:,c1r.l aud pTole-;e.
aot !it::c il defense Of tie :::,y house and the
.iaytrs. tut i'll considering. 'pluk Dstninoes -
ls: like :rils:s oysT t. tic f1e: iur il ever any
s:>.no W., .e"l;slizing, It is such rc!oresent:i
::.t'i :lesc, W;s;ei, tlrrrriy aud entertaining
!: tilr.ss' '.:"i ;'' the I't5t cE1tiCnS rendering
:e;z o.:;; :;it:t*sfu! .1a.u:re willy alr! lunns.
II tin ;.i.u' :,ts Vi s:au!l Representations was
~ X! !; universally, as it dots III
Nv -: thee. would sc uo harm @onc.
Il; .i.at l. n!ta;l> the rule. Au=t people
:..t.: !irtti :liu c4lyate by s;lcil rtl'l:fl1lI
- i: il l. ST. we'll a:lu = art.sfiealy' '1'uc
y" II: 81 "g-7c ssiyviy grounded II their taste
'l 80 u .cnt the fling Of dirt when
..'ic!v;: DTcr with flowers Anu set to music,
;t.'. :,li;t laughter.
-; ~ swift; i, ois of this playground before
:. .--:|tiy turn lnfu baIt]c-1lcld, let ME turn
~!1c new book Of
STARR KINGS SERMONS,
~ =. !i.:,.-.n.y - f.. t. y i,l.''he. tic nfst
:;:;;::-. a.d indeed the main thing, that one
:,tc.S il. t.ese sermons the abni'hu11l41 1aill
In these days oi scientific Investigation. the
result Of which is doubt and downright IeJce-
tin, OF the spiritual, such faith is l'ke :Iesi'
s.cra.n from '*1hc hills ot Col" lhere
l. 10 question M aoout ''nne1f wnrc ag fosei nof
~ boldly apparent On every s!ie in the days
wien thesc sermons we're written. as IN thls day
v,cn the preacher cannot hut meet them with
argument aud controversy. But starr King was
tyileu;ly not called upon for such argument OF
controversy, and therefore We do not tiud It,
The first OF the sermons in the book has the
only su.gcs! ion of this argument The sermon
is called 1.-THE Experimental Evidence Of Chris
tianity.'' But it is simply the oil question Of
Christianity as extm|4iiticl In the person OF
Christ which starts with the text
The man answered and said unto them. Whv
herein il a marvellous thing, that xe know not
from whence He is, and yet lie hath opened mine
eyez.-.foAn. iI-, 10.
And VIC are shown how this man who was re-
stored to his sight believed in Jesus as the prac-
tical exponent Of all ght.
He owed new being to the influence Of Jesus:
every beautiful reality Of nature which his unseale
eyes bcneld attested The power Of Chritt and he
could onv reply to tho subtle fnsiuuations Of his
qucstioucrs, "'Whrther he be sinner or M. I
Enow not: enc thing l know, that whereas l was
blind, now ! see. -
Here we practical conviction Of the cloims
o! thf1st set against speculative doubts OF those
c!a'ms, and 70 this dispute between the restored
o!lnd man anu the Pharisees ia symbol of what
ol1en happens IN the world. 1t would be eaay to
tanlty born Of intellectual inquiry which they end
II Impossible to appease: while there is another
class OF persons who feel confidence in Christian
~! oorn 81 inward experience. which it would b..
'. " osefthro" And If two persons rep
Icseh'lAc thefe two classes should meet and IL
Tempt oltcnssloD they could not understand each
otacf' 1oF their koais would not touch The h.
csfn man conld not coniute nor dispei the douhts
snat would ee reported to him by his opponent be-
cGuse he had never fei. those doubts. and conid
lot Judge OF their validity The scentic11 m.a
could receive 10 immediate aid from the nrsrt;csi
<unv1ctlon OF tho believer, for that conTici;or
cuEd not be Translated from feeling into effertia
f'a'emeo1 IN words One is troubled with doubts
s"ee: peace OF Christian duty, and senss of n,r-
toned sing ~ p0''
Ills Is the old answer to doubt and the nm
questioning ta1tn o1 it has beauty Of its own.
but It would satisfy no QuestoueF of this t]ay
And Starr Hing, il he lived amongst us nov.
would not himself be contcut with s,,ch an
answer.