Excerpt from Papers on Acting II: Art and the Actor

It was nearly seventeen years ago and the first time that the writer of these remarks had taken his seat in that temple of the drama in which he was destined afterwards to spend so many delightful evenings, feel the solicitation of so many fine impressions, these last crowned by the conviction that the Theatre Français was such a school of taste as was not elsewhere to be found in the world. The spectator of whom I speak felt the education of his theatrical sense fairly begin on the evening M. Coquelin was revealed to him in 'Lions et Renards' - and revealed in spite of a part of rather limited opportunity.

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