Few other essays in this direction appear worth noting, until we come to a few seasons back, when certain members of the administration were caricatured upon the stage of the Court Theatre, after a fashion that speedily brought down the rebuke of the Chamberlain, and the exhibition was prohibited within his jurisdiction.

But the question of "good manners and decorum" has induced much controversy.

For where, indeed, is discoverable an acceptable standard of "good manners and decorum"?
In such matters there is always growth and change of opinion.

Sir Walter Scott makes mention of an elderly lady, who, reading over again certain books she had deemed in her youth to be of a most harmless kind, was shocked at their exceeding grossness.

She had unconsciously moved on with the civilising and refining influences of her time.