I think it a very questionable thing whether, even at home, public spouting and acting ought to form part of the system of a place of education.

But in this country such exhibitions are peculiarly out of place.

I can conceive nothing more grotesque than the scene from the Merchant of Venice, with Portia represented by a little black boy.

Then, too, the subjects of recitation were ill chosen.

We are attempting to introduce a great nation to a knowledge of the richest and noblest literature in the world.