Genre:

News-Commentary, Drollery

Subjects:

Psychology, Human Development, Crime

    Discusses Edmund Falconer's new drama, which shows that 'solitary confinement for twenty years is a piece of experience that may be laughed at'—a claim that contradicts the belief that such an experience would 'turn a bad man into a savage, and a good one into an idiot'. Relates that the prisoner in Falconer's drama 'regards his punishment as a positively beneficial process' because it 'sharpens the enjoyment of fresh air, and the salutary privilege of exercise'.