Excerpt from The Actor and His Art: Some Considerations of the Present Condition of the Stage IT was once a principle Of our social economy in choosing professions for our sons, that one should go into the army, another to the Bar, and the fool of the family into the Church. Since the abolition of purchase in the army and the application to candidates for admis sion to the Bar Of the system of examinations, young gentlemen, unable to qualify by the exercise of their brains for the profession of arms or the law, have had to ...
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Excerpt from The Actor and His Art: Some Considerations of the Present Condition of the Stage IT was once a principle Of our social economy in choosing professions for our sons, that one should go into the army, another to the Bar, and the fool of the family into the Church. Since the abolition of purchase in the army and the application to candidates for admis sion to the Bar Of the system of examinations, young gentlemen, unable to qualify by the exercise of their brains for the profession of arms or the law, have had to turn elsewhere for a livelihood. Far be it from me to suggest that this affords an explanation of the influx to the Church, which is under-paid as well as over-crowded. Young men of good family in these days go into the City. If our big shop-keepers do not yet inter. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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