writing, in the maturity and
highest vitality of his genius. It abounds in instances of
extremest compression and most daring ellipsis; while it exhibits
in every scene a union of supreme dramatic and poetic power, and in
almost every line an imperially irresponsible control of language.
Hence, I think, its lack of formal completeness of versification in
certain passages, and also of the imperfection in its text, the
thought in which the compositors were not always able to follow and
apprehend. The only authority for the text of 'Macbeth' is the
folio of 1623, the apparent corruptions of which must be restored
with a more than usually cautious hand. Without being multitudinous
or confusing, they are sufficiently numerous and important to test
severely the patience, acumen, and judgment of any editor."--_"The
Works of William Shakespeare." Vol. X., P._ 424.]

[Footnote I: So called because they stood on the ground. The pit was
then a real pit, and its floor was the bare earth. There were no
benches. It was so in the French theatre until a much later period.
Hence the French name _parterre_ for the pit--_par terre_, upon the
ground. The name _parquet_, which is given to that part of a theatre in
America, is not French, and is no word at all, but a miserable affected
nonentity of sound.]

[Footnote J: The reader who cares to do so will find something upon this
point in my essay on Shakespeare's genius, "Life and Genius of
Shakespeare," pp. 280, 281.]

APPLIED SCIENCE.

A LOVE STORY IN TWO CHAPTERS.

CHAPTER I.

The village of Salmon Falls, in eastern New England, consists of a
number of mills and factories, the railroad station, a store or two, and
two hundred dwellings. Among these is the Denny mansion at the top of
the hill, where the road climbs up from the station and the river. It is
a large square house in the old colonial fashion, with two wings at the
rear and a garden in front.

It was a warm July morning when Mr. John Denny, mill owner and
proprietor of the homestead, had his chair rolled out to the porch, and
with some assistance from the servants, reached it on his crutch and sat
down in the shadow of the great house and out of the glare of the hot
sun. The vine-covered porch and the wide piazza opened directly upon the
garden and gave a full view of the road. Beyond there was an outlook
over the open fields, the mills, the st