This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...Mr. Richard Swiveller's " make-believe." Even then our modern Julians fail; the Galilean has conquered. But where we, with all our striving, fail, Nature sometimes succeeds. Now and again (if we are to believe the novelists and dramatists) a woman--it is generally a woman, the Eternal Feminine having the best of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...Mr. Richard Swiveller's " make-believe." Even then our modern Julians fail; the Galilean has conquered. But where we, with all our striving, fail, Nature sometimes succeeds. Now and again (if we are to believe the novelists and dramatists) a woman--it is generally a woman, the Eternal Feminine having the best of the luck, as usual--reincarnates for us the pure Pagan type. She is a creature of surpassing beauty, a tinted Venus, as Mr. Anstey would say, and she has no conscience, no moral sense--that is, she is not immoral, but non-moral. Whether her birth squares with the law of heredity or not is quite a toss-up. Becky Sharp's did, for Becky was the daughter of a drunken artist and a French ballerina. Regina Engstrand, too, took after her mother. But sometimes what the biologists call " sports" occur. Nature reverts to the ancient type capriciously, and grows figs from thistles. That is the case with Drusilla Ives, the latest feminine reincarnation of Paganism, and the heroine of Mr. Jones's new play, The Dancing Girl. This tinted Venus is a harmony in white and grey. I mean that Drusilla is the daughter of a Quaker family, who inhabit the Cornish island of St. Endellion, an island peopled entirely by Quakers--Quakers tempered by harmoniums. Here we find the Neo-Pagan Quakeress, demurely clad, "thee"-ing and "thou "-ing her kinsfolk, and, the moment their backs are turned, taking off her slipper to show her shapely foot to one man, or practising a "shadowdance" for the delectation of another. The fact is, they do not know everything down in St. Endellion. They do not know, for instance, that the " Christian" situation in which their Drusilla is supposed to have been serving up in London has been re...
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Add this copy of Playhouse Impressions to cart. $14.32, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1892 by T. Fisher Unwin.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Blue and brown cloth binding, black lettering on backstrip, shelf wear on backstrip, gilt top edge, pages are clean, text is clear. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 600grams, ISBN:
Add this copy of Playhouse Impressions to cart. $36.53, good condition, Sold by Anybook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lincoln, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1892 by T. Fisher Unwin.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. With owner's inscription inside cover. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Quarter calf cloth bound covers with green text on spine. Gold guilt edges on top. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 650grams, ISBN:
