tural and musical as the song of a brook. So, in the scene with
Olivia in which she cries, "Make me a willow cabin at your gate!"
she is the embodiment of grace, and her voice is as musical as the
words, and as rich in tone as they are in thought.

In the duel with Sir Andrew she shows the difference between the
delicacy of woman and the cowardice of man. She does the little
that she can, not for her own sake, but for the sake of her disguise
--she feels that she owes something to her clothes.

But I have said enough about this actress to give you an idea of
one who is destined to stand first in her profession.

We will now come back to the real question. I am in favor of
protecting the American actor. I regard the theatre as the civilizer
of man. All the arts united upon the stage, and the genius of the
race has been lavished on this mimic world.

--_New York Star_, December 23, 1888.

LIBERALS AND LIBERALISM.

_Question_. What do you think of the prospects of Liberalism in
this country?

_Answer_. The prospects of Liberalism are precisely the same as
the prospects of civilization--that is to say, of progress. As
the people become educated, they become liberal. Bigotry is the
provincialism of the mind. Men are bigoted who are not acquainted
with the thoughts of others. They have been taught one thing, and
have been made to believe that their little mental horizon is the
circumference of all knowledge. The bigot lives in an ignorant
village, surrounded by ignorant neighbors. This is the honest
bigot. The dishonest bigot may know better, but he remains a bigot
because his salary depends upon it. A bigot is like a country that
has had no commerce with any other. He imagines that in his little
head there is everything of value. When a man becomes an intellectual
explorer, an intellectual traveler, he begins to widen, to grow
liberal. He finds that the ideas of others are as good as and often
better than his own. The habits and customs of other people throw
light on his own, and by this light he is enabled to discover at
least some of his own mistakes. Now the world has become acquainted.
A few years ago, a man knew something of the doctrines of his own
church. Now he knows the creeds of others, and not only so, but
he has examined to some extent the religions of other nations. He
finds in other creeds all the excellencies that are in his own,
and most of the mistakes. In this way he learns