Excerpt from Buzz, Buzz! Essays of the Theatre I take it to be fitting that this book should be dedicated to that one of my friends who, so far from being its only begetter, was the chief coun sellor against publication. It was you who urged that the essential temper of newspaper criticism - its obligation to fire at sight - was antagonistic to reproduction. Little can you have guessed at the premeditation which runs before the critical impromptu! Is it possible that you never had an inkling of the labour and travail which, with all good critics, should precede performance, that you took us at our written word and marvelled at the never-failing accuracy and appositeness of our instruction? Whereas any honest critic will con fess to the feverish turning up of Little firthur which is to make him sound on the Henrys and the Edwards and so enable him to face the Histories without flinching, and to the furtive dive into the latest number of The Lancet which is to equip him for Damaged Goods. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.