When you come home,
you sit down, in a sober, contemplative, not uncharitable frame of mind,
and apply yourself to your books or your business.
I have no other moral than this to tag to the present story of "Vanity
Fair." Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether, and eschew such,
with their servants and families; very likely they are right.
But persons who think otherwise, and are of a lazy, or a benevolent,
or a sarcastic mood, may perhaps like to step in for half an hour, and
look at the performances. There are scenes of all sorts; some dreadful
combats, some grand and lofty horse-riding, some scenes of high life,
and some of very middling indeed; some love-making for the sentimental,
and some light comic business; the whole accompanied by appropriate
scenery, and brilliantly illuminated with the Author's own candles.
What more has the Manager of the Performance to say?---To
acknowledge the kindness with which it has been received in all the
principal towns of England through which the show has passed, and where
it has been most favorably noticed by the respected conductors of the
Public Press, and by the Nobility and Gentry.
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