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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4021, 1 October 1874, Page 3

An impertinent fellow wants to know if you ever sat down to tea where skimmed milk was on the table without being asked Do you take cream ?" Hoxest Criticism.—lf there is any one thing we admire it is candid, courteous, outspoken dramatic criticism. "The Western man" lias r. way of giving his views in this respect that is pccular. A performance of Kainlet having recently taken place in Lafayette, Indiana, the journalise of that ])laec expressed himself about it in the following terms :—" Hamlet must have been a remarkable man not to have gone mad in the midst of such, characters as his aimless mother, the insipid and discordant Ophelia, and the noisily empty Laertes, as they were presented 021 this stage. We confess to a secret satisfaction at the poisoning of the queen who. in rouging her cheeks, got a double dose on the end of her nose ; and we experienced a malicious joy in the unskilful stabbing of Laertes, who deserved death if for 110 other reasoii than for his unaccented lamentations over a horse-fiddle sister, whose departure should have been to him a source of joy. The grave-digger did well, not only in his professional work but in effectually burying the ill-dressed Ophelia. We never attended funeral with more pleasure.

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