V: Immoral Sculptures—The Domesticated Critic—The Right Place for Shakespeare.
OUR last conversation was, I think, in the main, devoted to the Drama; and I believe I succeeded in showing you that while we Free Churchmen object to the stage as it is at present conducted, we are so far from being hostile to the theatre, that one of our dearest wishes is to see it reformed, re-edified, and made an instrument of innocent and wholesome delight. In touching on the question of the drama, I could scarcely avoid dealing to some extent with literature, but before I go more fully into that great subject, I should like to say a word about an art which is not so generally in the public view; I mean sculpture.
Now I will say in the first place that there are certain aspects of this art which seem to me wholly laudable. When I
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