A Book About the Theater

At an interesting moment in Disraeli's picturesque career in British politics he indulged in one of his strikingly spectacular effects in accord with his characteristic method of boldly startling the somewhat sluggish imagination of his insular countrymen and in the next week's issue of Punch there was a cartoon by Tenniel reflecting the general opinion in regard to his theatrical audacity. He was represented as Artemus Ward frankly confessing that, I have no principles, I'm in the show business.