 | King Alfred and the Cakes |  |
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[The great fault found, and deservedly, with modern playwrights, is, that they will not write the Drama of our Hearths and Homes. The following dramatic sketch, the author flatters himself, will be found an exception to the rule. The liberal use he has made of such household matters as baking, a scolding matron, the coal-hole, &c., gives an irresistible charm of homeliness to his production. And as the entire scene is laid in the immediate vicinity of the oven and fire-place, the tone of sentiment throughout is necessarily “of the hearth—hearthy.”]
| King Alfred and the Cakes | |