SPIRIT MANAGERIAL.
WE hear a vast deal about a quality called spirit in the mana- gers of playhouses. Spirit prompts them to engage this per- former, and spirit impels them to produce that piece. Is this spirit exclusively a stage property; or is it known under another name in the other walks of trade ? We see in the small print pa- ragraphs of a newspaper, that " The Lessee of such and such a Theatre has with great spirit engaged Mr. Starlight for so many nights."
This being translated, scorns to us to signify, that the Lessee has done a certain act which he calculates will put some money in his pocket. But why may not measures of profit in other trades be described under this handsome term of spirit? When Mr. Bastem, the enterprising and active lessee of the cook's shop, re- solves in his great mind to dress a pig, calculating on the profits of the same, why should not his neighbours say that he has roasted his pig with great spirit ?
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