Excerpt from Harlequin and Columbine: Front, by Stetson Crawford

"Harlequin and Columbine" was written almost ten years ago, and even then the particular aspect of the stage offered to view in the story was faded and passing. Probably no more than traces could now be found remotely lingering, for the theatre has been moving a long way toward truthfulness. That it has so moved must be acknowledged as due in no little part to the impulse of journalist criticism, and, although the writer has sometimes most querulously complained of the very critics who stir forward the advance, this small book is heartily inscribed to them.

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