The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . s devoid ofhumour. She happens also to be asister of the clergymans wife, Mild-red. Mildred is clever, tactful andpractical, and in addition to her othercharms seems to have inherited thesense of humour that was left oiit of Isabelles compound. The viewpointof the comedy is disclosed in this, andit is Mildreds sense of humour ex-posing the unsuspecting young senti-mentalists to constant ridicule thatprovides the entertainment and finallyrestores them to sanity. Meanwhilethey have the floor, and to be en-
The canadian magazine of politics, science, art and literature, November 1910-April 1911 . s devoid ofhumour. She happens also to be asister of the clergymans wife, Mild-red. Mildred is clever, tactful andpractical, and in addition to her othercharms seems to have inherited thesense of humour that was left oiit of Isabelles compound. The viewpointof the comedy is disclosed in this, andit is Mildreds sense of humour ex-posing the unsuspecting young senti-mentalists to constant ridicule thatprovides the entertainment and finallyrestores them to sanity. Meanwhilethey have the floor, and to be en-tirely consistent in their anti-matri-monial propaganda, have announcedthe non-existence of any legal mar-riage tie between them—a statementnot borne out by fact, as we after-wards learn. They have really beenmarried in the ordinary way, but,ashamed of their weakness, haveagreed to keep the fact a secret. Thisknowledge gives Mildred her oppor-tunity. By pre-arrangement with herhusband, she places herself underMorriss influence, professes conver-sion to his views, and feeds his per- r. HELKN WAKK. IHK >1AK IN IHK sonal vanity to such an extent thathe fancies her his real soul-mate in-stead of the complaisant situation arouses the hithertoemancipated and un-domestic Isahelleinto a betrayal of the very domesticpassion of jealous}^; and, to block fur-ther advances on her preserves, sheblurts out the truth they were all wait-ing for—the marriage. This scenedevelops into pure burlesque, in whichEosmersholm is travestied withconsiderable literary adroitness, to pro-vide a mill-race, a mill-door that lockson the inside and plenty of mud tocomplete the discomfort and cure ofthe sentimentalists. All this, ofcourse, suggests no clue to the brilliantv^erbal exchanges, the wealth of liter-ary allusion, or the keen humorousinsight into some familiar modern cur- 284 rents of thought that adorn the the elements of a splendid literarycomedy are there, t
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