| The first excerpt represents the element of Air. It speaks of mental influences and the process of thought, and is drawn from Herodias by Gustave Flaubert: games; that he had built temples in the honour of Augustus; had been
patient, ingenious, terrible; and was faithful to all the Caesars.
Between the two marble columns, with bronze capitals, Herodias could
now be seen advancing with the air of an empress, in the midst of a
group of women and eunuchs carrying perfumed torches set in sockets of
silver-gilt.
The proconsul advanced three steps to meet her. She saluted him with
an inclination of her head.
"How fortunate," she exclaimed, "that henceforth Agrippa, the enemy of
Tiberius, can work harm no longer!"
Vitellius did not understand her allusion, but he thought her a
Herodias |
The second excerpt represents the element of Fire. It speaks of emotional influences and base passions, and is drawn from The Man against the Sky by Edwin Arlington Robinson: His thought is deep and his ideas are high and stimulating."
-- ~Boston Transcript~.
By the same author
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The Porcupine: A Drama in Three Acts
~Cloth, 12mo, $1.25~
Edwin Arlington Robinson's comedy "Van Zorn" proved him to be
one of the most accomplished of the younger generation of American dramatists.
Of this play the ~Boston Transcript~ said, "It is an effective presentation
of modern life in New York City, in which a poet shows
his skill of playwrighting . . . he brings to the American drama to-day
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