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Title: The Forum
Year: 1886 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York, N.Y.: (Events Pub. Co., etc.)
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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of Buddha in Burma as it is common among theiravaricious brothers in Ceylon. A gentle dull lot they seem to be here in Burma, these nuns andmonks, living for the most part frugally on such food as worshippers maygive, tending the shrines, teaching the children, repeating prayers with-out end, much given to vain repetitions and priestly mysteries—probablythey, too, admonishing their flocks to be satisfied with the positionwherein it has pleased God to place them. Nine miles farther down the Irrawaddy is the end of the river trip,at Golden Mandalay, with its Palace and Center of the Universe,*its pagodas by the thousand and its monasteries, its bazaars and streetsof magnificent distances. All to be seen, it is hoped. But it is to be nolonger in comfort and at ease, as is disclosed by an inspection of the wait-ing Mandalay gharries, the public hackney carriages of governmentalphraseology, instruments of slow torture to the long-suffering travelleron pleasure bent. Paul Kcnnaday. V ^ I
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leFcrum SOME BURIVIA SCENES THE COMEDIES OF CONGREVE II What are we to say, now, on the endless question of Congreves moral-ity? Mr. G. S. Street, in an ingenious essay, has advanced a dual pleafor his hero. Delicacy of speech, he says, is a convention varying withtime and locality, and we must not blame Congreve for speaking thelanguage of his age; while as for the alleged cynicism of his work, it isinherent in the nature of satiric comedy, the business of which is topaint vice and folly, not to sentimentalize over innocence and virtue. Thefirst part of this defence may be accepted, with an important reservation:to wit, that Congreve^s grossness, while less than that of some of his con-temporaries, yet went beyond what was conventionally admitted amongdecent people, and outraged even the lax proprieties of the period. Forinstance, no conventions that ever obtained in human society can excusethe rank brutality of the conversation between Valentine and Scandal inAct I of Love for Love.

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