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    The Hubble-Shue
    The Hubble-Shue
    The Hubble-Shue
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    The Hubble-Shue

    By Christian Carstairs

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      The Hubble-Shue - Christian Carstairs

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Hubble-Shue, by Christian Carstairs

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      Title: The Hubble-Shue

      Author: Christian Carstairs

      Release Date: January 22, 2011 [EBook #35039]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE HUBBLE-SHUE ***

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      THE HUBBLE-SHUE.

      BY

      MISS CARSTAIRS.

      Harry, harry, hobillischowe!

      Se quha is cummyn nowe.

      The Crying of ane Playe.

      [THIRTY COPIES PRINTED.]

      EDINBURGH:

      Printed by Andrew Shortrede, Thistle Lane.

      INTRODUCTORY NOTICE.

      If originality be a test of genius, the authoress of the Hubble-Shue bids fair to rank highest amongst the dramatic writers of the last century. This rare merit even the most fastidious critic must allow: but her histrionic essay is, in another respect, equally remarkable. We are told that obscurity is one of the sources of the sublime; and who will presume to deny that this drama is not sufficiently obscure? Perhaps the most remarkable feature in it is that singular, partially intelligible mystification, which we in vain look for in other writers: thus, when Gustard enters with his sword drawn, is it possible to figure any thing more intelligible and natural than that the cat should run in beneath the bed? But, on the other hand, who was Gustard?—why was his sword drawn?—what did he want?—how came the cat there? are questions, the solution of which is not easy. Then we have the interesting Lady Gundie, who flits across the stage without saying a word, like

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