ooth in Twelve Dramatic Characters; The Jeffersons; Henry Irving;
The Stage Life of Mary Anderson; Brief Chronicles, containing eighty-six
dramatic biographies; In Memory of McCullough; The Life of John Gilbert;
The Life and Works of John Brougham; The Press and the Stage; The Actor
and Other Speeches; and A Daughter of Comedy, being the life of Ada
Rehan. The impulse of all those writings, and of the present volume, is
commemorative. Let us save what we can._

_"Sed omnes una manet nox,
Et calcanda semel via leti."_

W.W.
APRIL 18, 1892.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. THE GOOD OLD TIMES 13

II. IRVING IN FAUST 30

III. ADELAIDE NEILSON 47

IV. EDWIN BOOTH 63

V. MARY ANDERSON 90

VI. OLIVIA 119

VII. ON JEFFERSON'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY 130

VIII. ON JEFFERSON'S ACTING 151

IX. JEFFERSON AND FLORENCE 159

X. ON THE DEATH OF FLORENCE 169

XI. SHYLOCK AND PORTIA 178

XII. JOHN McCULLOUGH 185

XIII. CHARLOTTE CUSHMAN 206

XIV. LAWRENCE BARRETT 215

XV. IRVING IN RAVENSWOOD 226

XVI. MERRY WIVES AND FALSTAFF 243

XVII. ADA REHAN 258

XVIII. TENNYSON'S FORESTERS 269

XIX. ELLEN TERRY: MERCHANT OF VENICE 286

XX. RICHARD MANSFIELD 301

XXI. GENEVIEVE WARD 315

XXII. EDWARD S. WILLARD 322

XXIII. SALVINI 339

XXIV. IRVING AS EUGENE ARAM 348

XXV. CHARLES FISHER 367

XXVI. MRS. GILBERT 374

XXVII. JAMES LEWIS 379

XXVIII. A LEAF FROM MY JOURNAL 383

_"--It so fell out that certain players
We o'er-raught on the way: of these we told him;
And there did seem in him a kind of joy
To hear of it."_

HAMLET.

_"Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world--though
the cant of hypocrites may be the worst--the cant of c