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Updated: May 13, 2025
She nodded ready comprehension, and they settled themselves to hear the following conversation: "I saw the assay," replied the stranger's voice to Mizzou's last statement, "but who's this McPherson? How do I know the assays are all right?" "Why, he's that thar professer at th' School of Mines," expostulated Mizzou. "Oh, yes!" cried the stranger, as though suddenly enlightened.
It rather resembles such amoebean productions as we find introduced into the stage plays of the time; and was, no doubt, as the superscription explicitly informs us, but 'Part of an entertainment presented to the Countess Dowager of Darby. Nevertheless it is complete and self-contained, and to speak of it, as Professer Masson does, as 'part, and part only, of a masque, is to give a wholly false impression; for, whatever the rest of the entertainment may have been, there is not the least reason to suppose that it had any connexion or relation with the portion that has survived.
He was a hairy, dirty, forsaken looking poilu who, washed and shaved and classified, turned out to be an exchange professer from the Sorbonne, who had spent a year at Harvard, and it was he who told us of the bombing of the hospital at Landrecourt; we'll call it Landrecourt to fool the censor, who thinks there is no hospital there.
'There is no doubt of the authorship of this play, writes Professer Gollancz in his notes to Lamb's Specimens, "J. S." is certainly an error for "E. S." I have found in a MS. in the British Museum Sir E. Sherburne's preface to this play. Professer Gollancz deserves credit for having unearthed the interesting document referred to, but an examination of it at once destroys his theory.
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