The morning call., 1893-05-28
RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The 1.%AIA-No one certainly ought
to be able % SPEAK more interestingly
upon any matters concerning the drama
than the greatest living exponent of the
Legitimate" Henry Irving A reminder
of this fact, generally conceded. comes in
the form Of q very neat little volume ent-
tied The Drama: Addresses by Henry
Irving" being a collection of four papers
read in England and this country. 1.-The
Stage as It IS ''The Art of Acting"
-Four Great Actors" and "The Art of
Acting" second lecture UPON the
lecond subject named. These lectures
we're delivered originally some years
ago. AS amsy be supposed Irving
defends the stage as it is" and declares
that it needs no apology. He claims that
the theater of fifty years ago is reformed.
he Pc nts out that there may be evil in
any amusement. You may be in the
wUrld, but not of it," 1.-THE theater
as a whole is never below the
moral sense of the time" 'There
are now few poor players" 1t must be
charitably remembered that the lecture
was delivered ten years before the stage
became the shOwground for the eX- pugi-
list and otherwise. In s'the art Of acting"
genius scores the greatest triumph
nor does Inspiration reach the dizzy
heights. The best and Hottest art is
the result Of the most untiring labor.
There Will. of course, be some moments
when an actor at a white heat illuniues
some passage with flash OF imagination.
but the great actors surprises are gen.
orally well weighed, studied and labored."
Irving declares that the -four great actors
were Burbage, Garrick, Kean and Better
ton"-the great champions, who in their
respective times strobe on the stage of
nature in contradistiuctiOn To the artificial
in acting. The last lecture was delivered in
Edinburgh III 1891 on the art of acting and
the great tragedlan declares that cit must
never be forgotten that all art has the aim
or object OF seeming and not OF being and
that 10 uDderstate is as bad as to over
state. the modesUv or the efflorescence of
nature. "Ail actors and audiences alike
must bear in mind that the whole scheme
of the higher drama is not to be regarded
as game in life which can be played with
varying success. Its present intention
may be to interest and anuse. but its
deeper purpose is earnest. intense. sin
cere." New York: TAFT. Sons 81 ca. For
sale at the bookstores
NATIONAL FINANcEs.-"The Independ-
ent Treasury of the United States" by
David Kinley, A. g., fellow and assistant
in political economy in the University of
Wisconsin, is closely printed volume of
$50 pages. and undertakes to trace the his
:, tory OF the banking system of the country,
together with review, or more properly
speaking, criticisms of the relations borne
10 the money crisis of the United States by
the sub-tTeasury system. The writer
charges that by reason of its connection
with the currency of the country the
treasury is source OF danger, and
that il is at least partly due TO the
existence of the sub-treasury that the
present unfortunate silver situation exists :;
that under the present system it must
maintain the gold standard. and now that
the ability TODD so has practically disap-
peared with the surplus the further
breach between the two metals IS ineyi-
table. MI Kinley tbtuks that renrganZa-
ton of the banking system is absolutely
necessary. which involves tho belief that
the banks and clearinghouse should keep
the Goveinmenfs money and take care
Of financial disturbances. The banks
throughout the Country being in
closer touch with the personnel and
needs of the situation than the treas
ury at Washington can possibly be. the
author assumes them the better medium
and repository If resources against imam
cial panic and, business Decentralization
The book is particularly Interesting at this
juncture, however widely one may diner
from its author as 10 the manner IN when