Sometimes I think I catch a gleam of some original power at the bottom, but there is such a lack of intelligence--in the artist's sense.

It is a striking instance of how much and how little can be done without education.' 'It is curiously bad, certainly,' said Kendal, while the actress's denunciations of her lover were still ringing through the theatre.

'But look at the house! What folly it is ever to expect a great dramatic art in England.

We have no sense for the rudiments of the thing.

The French would no more tolerate such acting as this because of the beauty of the actress than they would judge a picture by its frame.