1752.- Use and Abuse of the Theatre-State of the English Stage from the year 1741 to 1752-The Hallams-Plan of the Voyage of Discovery and Adventure by the first Company of Players that crossed the Atlantic-The Company-Occupation at Sea-Arrival at Yorktown-First regular Theatrical Performance in AmericaFirst Play-Prologue for the Occasion-Singleton's Poems.
IF the fine arts, as we believe, are effective instruments for promoting the best interests of man— if the pleasure of the virtuous, as Plato tells us, is their aim and the test of their success-if their great sphere and scope is that beau ideal which lifts us above the grovelling, the vile, and the sensual—it is the duty of every good citizen to encourage their cultivation in the country of his birth or residence, and to cherish the memories of those, whatever their motives, who introduced them.
The histrionic art is so inseparably connected in our minds with the Drama, that, in contemplating