What a slender pittance of fame was motive sufficient to the production of such plays as the English Traveller, the Challenge for Beauty, and the Woman Killed with Kindness! Posterity is bound to take care that a writer loses nothing by such a noble modesty.
* * * * * THOMAS MIDDLETON AND WILLIAM ROWLEY.
_A Fair Quarrel_ .-- The insipid levelling morality to which the modern stage is tied down, would not admit of such admirable passions as these scenes are filled with.

A puritanical obtuseness of sentiment, a stupid infantile goodness, is creeping among us, instead of the vigorous passions, and virtues clad in flesh and blood, with which the old dramatists present us.

Those noble and liberal casuists could discern in the differences, the quarrels, the animosities of men, a beauty and truth of moral feeling, no less than in the everlastingly inculcated duties of forgiveness and atonement.

With us, all is hypocritical meekness.

A reconciliation-scene, be the occasion never so absurd, never fails of applause.