ABSTRACT
In the Broadway Theatre last night, in presence of a numerous, eagerly attentive, and often kindly responsive audience, Lawrence Barrett…produced another new piece, under the name of Guide Ferranti. The performance was followed with deep interest and at certain telling points was rewarded with earnest applause…. The new play is deftly constructed in five short acts, and is written in a strain of blank verse that is always melodious, often eloquent, and sometimes freighted with fanciful figures of rare beauty. It is less a tragedy, however, than a melodrama-by which is meant a drama of situation. To this ingredient everything is moulded and sacrificed. The inevitable consequence ensues. The radical defect of the work is insincerity. No one in it is natural….
