Year: 1873

Instances OF poets OF single poem. In these
cases the strong expression of selfhood secured
the immortality, and the verses are not go
much an intellectual success as q tempera-
mental magic. similar result may be found
upon the stage. Every frequenter of the thea
tire can remember solitary triumphs achieved
by notorious "sticks "-triumphs secured
solely by the closeness with which the condi-
tions of the role matched the conditions OF per-
sonal character The emotions of the actor
flowed into the part as into mould, and the
result was a wonderfully faithful and there
fore forceful impression.


It were curious to speculate upon the infiu>
ence which the extension of this principle
would have upon acting in general. The
playwright of the future instead of studying
human nature would study an individual
man, and that man the actor for whom he in
tended to build role, and, his observation
being more limited, let us hope would be more
intimate and precise. In the case of an actress
who desired to be fitted with a round of parts
it is easy to imagine the dramatic measurer of
her intellectual gauge and emotional quality
lost in the meshes of woman's weakness and
bewildered in the labyrinth of feminine Ca
price. The actress, no longer ranging through
the arcana of histrionic literature and franti-
cally questioning which creature she might
best mould to her dispositions, will discover,
with satisfaction, that she is being psychologi-
cally studied by one whose interest it is to
understand her we'll and furnish her with as
many dramas as her character presents sides.
If by this means valuable inspiration can
be given to American dramatic authors at
least one important result will have been at
tained.


The French NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Pay


ment.


A second instalment, amounting to two
hundred and fifty millions of francs Of the
war indemnity, was paid over to the German
Treasury on the 5th instant. Of the entire
war indemnity five hundred million francs
remain to be paid. This last sum must, in
accordance with the terms of the treaty, be
paid by the 5th of September next. 1t is
large sum but we have no doubt that France
will be found equal to the requirements Of the
situation. Her resources are wonderful
After the 5th of September, supposing the
war indemnity to be paid, the invader will
have left her soil and France will be free. All
the smouldering fires WIN then burst forth
into blaze the tug Of war will have come
and it remains to be seen who will win and
what kind of government the French people
will choose. They have shown 80 much
patience, wisdom and self-control in their
season of adversely that we feel justified in
hoping that the final decision will not be un
worthy of great people with great and
glorious history.


The FARMERS ORANGES AND THEIR New
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. E.-Among the
novel features in the Fourth of July celebra-
tions in the West by the farmers oranges was
the reading Of new Declaration of Indepen-
dence setting forth their grievances and declar-
ing their entire independence of old party
trammels, monopolies of oil kinds, particu-
larly the railroad extortionists, and proclaim
ing their determination to stand by each othe,
until the reforms they demand are realized.
This is very good way of propagating their
sentiments, but to ignore Thomas Jefferson'a
immortal Declaration" altogether on such
occasions is not entirely proper. Why cannot
the farmers of the West "dovetaip their new
declaration Of rights and individual sover-
eighty into the grand old instrument that
severed the colonies of America from the
Grown Of Great Britain? The principles en-
bodied in that document are as undying az
the everlasting hills, and their accommodation
should form part in the programme of every
patriotic celebration of the anniversary Of
American independence .