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    Really this is very school-boy like ; nay , and it is like your modern aristocracy as truly . It reminds us of the opening of No . I . in a series of Philosophical Dramas : — A . — -My nose , the escutcheon'd herald of my face ! B . — Your nose a ' scutcheon'd herald > ¦

    — — —— — - — — — — ^ — — » ^» v ^^^^ ^ — " ^ w A . —Yes , sir !—it runs i' the family , and I follow it for evermore ! B . — "Tis an ignis fatuus . A . —Ha ! a fiery fat leader ? B . —The same , sir . A . —Villain !—its as handsome a nose as yours . B . —Foul knave , thou liest ! \_ They kill each , other . l

    Be it vmderstood , we are far from finding fault with the author for not making Bouchard a philosopher ; that would be mere critical ignorance and impertinence ; we are only showing what Bouchard really is , under existing circumstances . We should not be justified in assuming that the author meant

    him to be anything greater than his own words and actions prove him . Yet we may be permitted to entertain some doubt as to the favourable result of a comparison of the idea of Bouchard in his own mind , with our analytical outline . We trust it will not be taken amiss . We acknowledge the historical truth of the character , and perhaps it was almost necessary to the working out of the story he has chosen , that it should be

    as it is . The character of Constance is an abstraction of fragile sweetness and tender affection , with one dash of her father ' s spirit . It is only once shown , but there is no mistaking the anti-serfism of the principle . Sir Thancmar ( into whose hands the Imcs would fain bestow the person of the Provost , his daughter and Bouchard , on old Philippe disclosing the fact of the Provost ' s father having been born a serf upon Thancmar ' s land ) is the mere sketch of a malicious and envious man of rank who would

    avail himself of any means to accomplish the results of his low ambition . The narrow-minded , splenetic , doting " lust of power" in old Philippe , is perfectly pourtrayed . The character is indeed a masterly sketch . Kvery touch is characteristic , and the combination gives all the leading features , so that by following out the trains of the ramifications , we arrive at the same

    conclusion as if the effect was produced by an elaborate display of the internal structure and operations . The scene between him and Thancmar is executed with the sharp and subtle stylus of a true dramatist . * * In an excellent critique on the first night ' s representution of this tragedy , the Neu > Wee Alt / Messenger complimented Mr . JM endows for ins fine » nd artmt-like acting : in the pait of old IMnlippe , hut observed that he wanted " smoothness . ' * How he might have given the character on the tirnt ni ^ ht we do not know ; we did not perceive the fault subsequently , and can scarcely think the ezpreteion , happy ' '

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), March 2, 1836, page 133, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2655/page/5/