Ditz,
Staff-Captain.
UNWIN BROTHERS, LIMITED, THE GRESHAM PRESS, WOKING AND LONDON
Crown 8vo. FICTION 6s. each
Moll Davis
By BERNARD CAPES
A very light-hearted Comedy of the Stuart period, elaborated from an incident in the Grammont Memoirs. With the more than doubtful reputation of the lady of the title-rôle Mr. Capes has taken some additional liberties, but only with a view to helping it to a kindlier estimate than it perhaps deserved. Moll will be remembered as Pepys’s little jigging shepherdess, who, as Celania in Davenant’s play of “The Rivals,” won the royal heart by her singing of “My Lodging is on the Cold Ground.” She was one of the many then foundresses of noble houses. Her early history was so obscure as to lend itself very legitimately to the purposes of romance. Only dates in this case have been a little freely dealt with.
Through Stained Glass