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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 edition. Excerpt: ... ACT II Time: Evening of the following Sunday. Scene: The same. The table is now closer to the fireplace. The sweetpeas in the vase on the dresser have been changed. Price's week-day coat and a straw hat with Cardiff College band are behind door on left. Sam, in his best clothes, is sitting on the left-hand side of the dresser, his face hidden behind the "News of the World." Gwilym, reading a copy of " Cymru," is seated in the armchair, which is now on the left side of the table. Lewis is standing near the window, looking out. John Henry is seated in the chair by the parlor door. He is a young man of twenty-one, in appearance something like his brother Lewis. Just now he is lost in thought. There is a short spell of silence; then Gwilym, unconsciously, begins to hum the old Welsh hymn, "Bydd myrdd o ryfeddodau." After a bar or two, Lewis and John Henry take it up in harmony. Sam lowers the newspaper and looks at the brothers with perplexity and disgust. Sam. Cheerful, ain't it? Cawn't yer give us somethin' a bit more laively? Laife ain't orl a fun'ril, long drawn aht. Lewis. Strange what a hold they get on a man -- those old hymns. [Sits down on chair by window.] John Henry. Yes, very strange! They seem to get down into your blood somehow. Sam. Not maine, me boy. No fear! Gimme a seat in a music 'all, a pot o' beer, a paipe of baccy, and I'm 'appy -- puffickly 'appy. [Looking at the clock.] I suppose the boss and the missis will be 'ome from chapel before long, nah. I'd better 'op it. Gwilym. They won't be here for some time yet. It's the first Sunday in the month. And there'll be a lot of talk about the Church Meeting next week. They're going to choose the pastor then. Lewis. Aay. There'll be father pulling the strings for Thomas...

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Excerpt from ChangeThere is nothing more fraught with the elements of tragedy than a tradition which battles against change; nothing more likely to Win our sympathy than youthful response to a powerful call for a new order of things. Following in the footsteps of Ibsen's The Masterbuilder, the stage has been given a number of dramas that have exalted the younger generation. Especially in the so called new drama of England has the topic been a favourite one. Such plays as the late Stanley Houghton's The Younger Generation, Bliss Githa Sowerby's Ruth erford Son, and Mr. F rancis's Change have brought to bear on the subject all the minuteness of observation which characterizes their school. But there is an ethical difference between Mr. Francis and the other dramatists mentioned; he carries the art of the realist to a very high pinnacle by being eminently fair; by allowing his sense of justice full swing. After a close reading of Change, one cannot help but feel that all of the characters have been given a fair chance to express themselves upon their most poignant interests, and in accordance with their separate training and tradition. It is only toward the end of his play that Mr. Francis throws the weight of his sympathy on the side of Gwen, and adds the saving human grace to an otherwise earnestly conceived problem of change.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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