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To begin with, Sydney has behaved very badly. So badly that it seems likely that I shall have to re-cast my whole conception of his character. It was nearly nine o'clock this morning when I, I cannot say woke up, because I do not believe that I had really been asleep but when I returned to consciousness. I found myself sitting up in bed, trembling like some frightened child.
He also meets that man's wife, who shows a familiarity with art, letters, and public affairs vastly more comprehensive than he would expect to find in a woman of similar position in England. But he does not therefore strike a balance and re-cast his estimate of American society, any more than in his estimate of the American press he makes allowance for the American magazines.
By the prophecies on the birth of Elizabeth, Shakspeare has in some degree brought his great poem on English history down to his own time, as far at least as such recent events could be yet handled with security. There is an older King John, in two parts, of which the former is a re-cast: perhaps a juvenile work of Shakspeare, though not hitherto acknowledged as such by the English critics.
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