78 Sir Squire Bancroft on Dramatic Thoughts. [March 17, 



the dramatist, wrote : " Mark how the old actors decay, the young 

 sprout up." So will it ever be ; the vineyard may keep its most 

 luscious grapes for favoured years, the orchard may not always yield 

 the pick of the basket, but the beautiful art of acting will live on ; if 

 the sacred fire burns dimly for awhile it will never expire, being " not 

 for an age, but for all time." The drama is undying and stands 

 as the most entrancing, winning, moving, gladdening, alluring thing 

 ever conceived for the deUo^ht and recreation of mankind. 



[S. B.] 



