]-- A number of the books were sent to newspaperreviewers, and so effectually had he concealed the personality of hiswork that no critic seems to have suspected the book's authorship. Wethought it mighty good, and I think to this day that it was mighty good. By this time thecrowd, generally, had recognized who it was that was speaking. And in doing these things the pulpit is doing itsduty, and let us believe that it is likewise doing its best, and doing itin the most harmless and respectable way.
Coquelin did some excellent French monologues--one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. There ishardly even a suggestion of humor from beginning to end. BouverieStreet, in the historic Punch dining-room where Thackeray had sat, andDouglas Jerrold, and so many of the great departed. Sketches etc.
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