CHAPTER III.

THE THEATER.

Said to be a Good Place to Learn History, etc.--Some Plays "as Good as Sermons"--Doubts--Theater always a Haunt of Evil--Must be so or Fail--The Theater that tried to be "Respectable"--Failure, and the Causes of it--Strategy and Calculation--Who must be Pleased, and how--Immodest Costume an Indispensable Attraction--Circular, and Reply of Actress--Birds of Prey--Traps Game for them--The fable of Satan and the Monk--Theater can not be Reformed--Cage of every Unclean Bird--"Come out of her, my people," 47