belongs to poetry less into the diction and the "felicity of words"
than into the construction of the story, the creation of the characters,
and the spirit of the pervading sentiment.

The authorship of the play was neither avowed nor suspected
until the play had established itself in public favor.
The announcement of my name was the signal for attacks,
chiefly political, to which it is now needless to refer.
When a work has outlived for some time the earlier hostilities
of criticism, there comes a new race of critics to which a writer may,
for the most part, calmly trust for a fair consideration,
whether of the faults or the merits of his performance.

DRAMATIS PERSONAE.

BEAUSEANT, a rich gentleman of Lyons, in love with,
and refused by, Pauline Deschappelles MR. ELTON.

GLAVIS, his friend, also a rejected suitor to Pauline MR. MEADOWS.

COLONEL (afterwards General) DAMAS, cousin to Mme. Deschappelles,
and an officer in the French army MR. BARTLEY.

MONSIEUR DESCHAPPELLES, a Lyonnese merchant father to Pauline
MR. STRICKLAND.


GASPAR MR. DIDDEAR.

CLAUDE MELNOTTE MR. MACREADY.