John Henry Smith A Humorous Romance of Outdoor Life
THE CHARACTERS JOHN HENRY SMITH, who tells the story. Heir of his father, lives in Woodvale club house, devoted to golf, becomes interested in Wall Street, and falls in love with Grace Harding GRACE HARDING, only daughter of Robert L. Harding, visitor in Woodvale ROBERT L. HARDING, millionaire railway magnate, who first despises golf and then becomes infatuated with it MRS. HARDING, the matter-of-fact wife of the above JIM BISHOP, farmer near Woodvale, who knew Harding when the two were boys in Buckfield, Maine WILLIAM WALLACE, Bishop's hired man, later golf professional in Woodvale, and later something else OLIVE LAWRENCE, pupil to William Wallace
Michigan, and James L. Clifford, Columbia University, New York.
INTRODUCTION
In the spring of 1698 the rumblings against the excesses of the
English stage broke into a roar with the publication of Jeremy
Collier's _Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English
Stage_. A wild joyousness marked Collier's attack, and at times it
seemed as though the zeal of the Lord had eaten him up. But he was no
enthusiast without plan or reason. A man of some learning, he used it
for all it was worth to confound the playwrights and the critics.
Collier was careful to make good use of accepted and honored critical
principles. He contended that the purpose of the stage is to instruct;
he argued for poetic justice; he discussed the unities; he spoke of
propriety of manners and language; and he warned of the danger of
fancy's overriding judgment--"the Fancy may be gain'd, and the Guards
THE CHARACTERS JOHN HENRY SMITH, who tells the story. Heir of his father, lives in Woodvale club house, devoted to golf, becomes interested in Wall Street, and falls in love with Grace Harding GRACE HARDING, only daughter of Robert L. Harding, visitor in Woodvale ROBERT L. HARDING, millionaire railway magnate, who first despises golf and then becomes infatuated with it MRS. HARDING, the matter-of-fact wife of the above JIM BISHOP, farmer near Woodvale, who knew Harding when the two were boys in Buckfield, Maine WILLIAM WALLACE, Bishop's hired man, later golf professional in Woodvale, and later something else OLIVE LAWRENCE, pupil to William Wallace