Genre:

Regular Feature, Essay, Drollery

Subjects:

Railways, Progress, Human Development, Psychology, Time

    Noting the claim that 'a time may come when Shakespeare will cease to prove attractive', considers the arguments that railways seem to 'have made people less patient than they were at public places of amusement, and less tolerant of anything approaching to longwindedness, which some of Shakespeare's characters are clearly rather given to'. However, the author does not fear the 'bad time [...] when Shakespeare will be sneered at as being too slow to keep pace with the age'.