Note 46 — XVII. ST. LOUIS, CINCINNATI, INDIANAPOLIS, COLUMBUS.

“Louis XI.,” “Charles the First,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “The Bells,” and “The Lyons Mail,” drew great and fashionable houses at Cincinnati, and the criticisms in the native press and in the German newspapers were written in a spirit of cordiality, much of it descriptive, and all of it recognizing the possibilities of a speedy reformation in the existing method of representing the classic drama in the West. The following translation of some of the most prominent passages in a lengthy criticism of “The Merchant of Venice” is from “Tagliches Cincinnati Volksblatt,” one of the principal German newspapers of the district:—