The Chap-book; semi-monthly . JACOBS BURIAL. From The History of Joseph and His Brethren. 42 NOTES ^Even as I was writing an appeal for a revival of oldEnglish plays, a few numbers back, the students of the Uni-versity of California were giving Congreves Love forLove with considerable success. The play was adaptedand revised. This was inevitable, and, I must say,advisable. But the most brilliant wit that the English stagehas ever known can endure mutilation. The only fault thecritics could find was that the play was too clever, too epi-grammatic. Swinburne says : A limb of Congreve wouldhave s
The Chap-book; semi-monthly . JACOBS BURIAL. From The History of Joseph and His Brethren. 42 NOTES ^Even as I was writing an appeal for a revival of oldEnglish plays, a few numbers back, the students of the Uni-versity of California were giving Congreves Love forLove with considerable success. The play was adaptedand revised. This was inevitable, and, I must say,advisable. But the most brilliant wit that the English stagehas ever known can endure mutilation. The only fault thecritics could find was that the play was too clever, too epi-grammatic. Swinburne says : A limb of Congreve wouldhave sufficed to make a Sheridan, and we know that a tinypart of Sheridan could furnish forth wit enough for a dozenmodern comedies. ^If a man were not a glutton already, Mrs. ElizabethRobins Pennells book, ** The Feasts of Autolycus, wouldmake him one. The adventures of a greedy woman, as shecalls herself, in the shops of the greengrocers, butchers, fish-mongers, dealers in delicatessetiy and so forth, make moreinteresting reading than I have ch
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