ABSTRACT
At the period to which this history is now arrived, the reader will have little difficulty in anticipating the catastrophe; and as the characters are now all assembled in a group, we might adopt the practice of the newly-imported German dramas, and precipitately drop the curtain on them. 188 – But though we are happy to see interest and pathos drawn from any source where-ever they can be found, we do not approve the borrowing of theatrical arrangement from comparatively a barbarous stage: – to such, therefore, of our readers who / like to take a farewell of their friends before they part, we dedicate this chapter. Those who prefer the method of Kotzebue to that of the British poets from Shakespeare to Cumberland, 189 may drop the curtain when they please by closing the volume.
