Great movements, and those who achieved them (1882)
Nicoll, Henry James · New York, Harper & Bros. · leaf 175
, criedConstable, I am satisfied that the demand for Shakspearesplays, contemptible as we hold it to have been, in the time ofElizabeth and James, was more creditable to the classes whoreally indulged in any sort of elegance then, than the sale ofChilde Harold or Waverley, triumphantly as people… … ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE. BOSTO>^ UNVE-^SITY COLLEGE OF LIBE^^A^ ARTS LIBRARY Constable^s Great Scheme. 173 he much doubted whether any laird within ten miles spent tenpounds per annum on the literature of the day—which he, ofcourse, distinguished from its periodical press. No, saidConstable, there…
