Excerpt from Dramas for the Stage, Vol. 1 of 2

An ability to construct five act dramas, not unworthy of lasting success in stage representation, has long since been ascribed, in divers reviews, periodical and other publications, by some of the first dramatic critics of the country, to the author of the present volumes, and his conscience inclines him to "plead guilty to the soft impeachment."

At the same time, his inspiration, damped and oppressed by the apathy of the iron and material age we "have fallen upon," which, like Gallio, devoted to the pleasures and pursuits of sense, "cares for none of these things," so, necessarily, is profoundly unenlightened respecting them; remains unaware of their immeasurable dignity in comparison with the mammon-worship and go-ahead mania that recognise their sordid objects in millocracies and railocracies...Vanity of vanities!

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