Veggo in candida robba.

Arms and the Man, Candida, You Never Can Tell, and The Man of Destiny, published (1898) in the second volume of Plays, Pleasant and Unpleasant; and The Devil's Disciple, published (1900) in Three Plays for Puritans, are among his best dramas.

Of these plays, Candida is first in character drawing and human interest.

She is nulli secunda, a rare creature, a phoenix, the sole commandress of his thoughts, queen of his desires, his only delight: as [5400]Triton now feelingly sings, that lovesick sea-god: "Candida Leucothoe placet,

Mollior cuniculi capillo, &c. [5402] "Lydia bella, puelia candida, Quae bene superas lac, et lilium, Albamque simul rosam et rubicundam, Et expolitum ebur Indicum.

30. "Vitrea gemmula, fluxaque bullula, candida forma est, Nix, rosa, fumus, ventus et aura, nihil.

[f] Cedamus patria: vivant Artorius istic Et Catulus: maneant, qui nigrum in candida vertunt.

A stand-up fight between will and willsuch a fight as occurs in, say, the Hippolytus of Euripides, or Racine's Andromaque, or Molière's Tartufe, or Ibsen's Pretenders, or Dumas's Françillon, or Sudermann's Heimat, or Sir Arthur Pinero's Gay Lord Quex, or Mr. Shaw's Candida, or Mr. Galsworthy's Strifesuch a stand-up fight, I say, is no doubt one of the intensest forms of drama.

Such scenes are Coriolanus, v. 3, the scene between Ellida, Wangel, and the Stranger in the last act of The Lady from the Sea, and the concluding scene of Candida.]

Of this type of opening, An Enemy of the People provides us with a classic example; and among English plays we may cite Mr. Shaw's Candida, Mr. Barker's Waste, and Mr. Besier's Don, in which so sudden and unlooked-for a cyclone swoops down upon the calm of an English vicarage.

This is no bad starting-point for an extravaganza; but even Mr. Shaw, though a despiser of niceties of craftsmanship, introduces no coincidences into serious plays such as Candida or The Doctor's Dilemma.

Sir Arthur Pinero's Iris is a case in point; so are Mr. Shaw's Candida and The Devil's Disciple; so is Mr. Galsworthy's Strife.

Candida perpetuo reside, Concordia, lecto, Tamque pari semper sit Venus æqua jugo.

Non ille repexam Cæsariem Regum, nec Candida virginis ornat Colla, nec insigni splendet per cingula morsu: Sed nova si nigri videas miracula suai, Tum pulcros superat cultus, et quldquid Evis Indus litoribus rubra scrutatur in alga.

Here is the interesting church of St. Wita (or St. Candida), Virgin and Martyr.

The chief interest in the church is the so-called shrine of St. Candida opened twenty years ago during repairs to the church wall.

EDMONDS, WALTER D. Caviar to Candida.

EDMONDS, WALTER D. Caviar to Candida.

S. Candida has pure white flowers closely arranged on the upper part of the stems.

'Candida perpetuo reside, concordia, lecto, Tamque pari semper sit Venus æqua jugo.

" <b>BOZZINO, CANDIDA LUIGIA.</b> Silver medal at Piacenza.

Then each in turn delivers a speech appropriate to her character, and finally Diana 'delivereth the ball of gold into the Queen's own hands,' and the play ends with a couple of doggerel hexameters chanted by way of epilogue by the assembled actors: Vive diu felix votis hominumque deumque, Corpore, mente, libro, doctissima, candida, casta.

Satan decides to imitate the Lord of Christianity, by begetting upon a virgin, Candida, a son who is to save the world from the sterility of asceticism.

Candida is briefly introduced, acknowledging the power of the mighty spirit and bewailing her fate in one of the finest passages in the play.

In his admirable play of 'Candida' it is clearly a part of the character of the Socialist clergyman that he should be eloquent, but he is not eloquent, because the whole 'G.B.S.' condition of mind renders impossible that poetic simplicity which eloquence requires.