It presents itself therefore for the consideration of the public, like the infirm man in the Gospel, 501m, pauper, nudus, - alone, poor and naked.

It was not without some hesitation that the author determined to burden his drama with notes and a preface. Those things are ordinarily a matter of utter indifference to the reader. They are more interested in a writer's talent than in his views and whether a work be good or bad, it matters little to them upon what ideas it is founded, in what spirit it was conceived. We seldom visit the cellars of an edifice after inspecting its upper regions, and when we eat the fruit of a tree, we care but little about the root from which the tree sprung.

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