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--_Provincial Paper._
It was somewhere in this neighbourhood, we believe, that WORDSWORTH
discovered his "winsome marrow."
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"Though to-day is Primrose Day...."--_Daily Mirror, April 12th._
At the risk of being thought behind the times, we ourselves deferred our
celebration until April 19th as usual.
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[Illustration: "YOU SETTLE WITH HIM. YOU'RE CHAIRMAN OF THE
ANTI-PROFITEERING COMMITTEE."]
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AT THE PLAY.
"BIRDS OF A FEATHER."
It is nearly always a good thing for the author of a play to know what he
is after, and if he can get his audience to follow him so much the better.
It is quite possible that Mr. ESMOND had an idea in his head when he wrote
_Birds of a Feather_, but if so he never let me get at it. Up to the very
end I had no conception of what he was trying to illustrate, unless it was
the trite theory that we are the creatures of our environment.
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