Great part of your arguments apply to musical as well as to
theatrical entertainments. Do you find similar results with respect
to them?

Milverton. Why, they are not attended by any means as they would
be, or made what they might be, if the objections I mentioned were
removed.

Dunsford. What do you say to the out-of-door entertainments for a
town population?

Milverton. As I said before, my dear Dunsford, I cannot give you a
chapter of a "Book of Sports." There ought, of course, to be parks
for all quarters of the town: and I confess it would please me
better to see, in holiday times and hours of leisure, hearty games
going on in these parks, than a number of people sauntering about in
uncomfortably new and unaccustomed clothes.

Ellesmere. Do you not see, Dunsford, that, like a cautious official
man, he does not want to enter into small details, which have always
an air of ridicule? He is not prepared to pledge himself to
cricket, golf, football, or prisoner's bars; but in his heart he is
manifestly a Young Englander--without the white waistcoat. Nothing
would please him better than to see in large letters, on one of
those advertising vans, "Great match! Victoria Park!! Eleven of
Fleet Street against the Eleven of Saffron Hill!!!"

Milverton. Well, there is a great deal in the spirit of Young
England that I like very much, indeed that I respect.