with another, death, disgrace, exile. Her home is
said to have been unhappy, a cheerless place,
unwarmed by an atmosphere of love, whence an
impulsive woman unconsciously went out to one who
appreciated and was a friend to her. Of course she
was obliged to encounter opposition, ostracism,
social annihilation with the classes whereof she
was at once the peer and superior. But little she
cared, and in the _salons_ of Paris, Berlin,
Vienna, and St. Petersburgh, she found the salad
of variety that was denied her at home up to 1867.
She was a regnant queen at Washington, Cape May,
Saratoga--in short, at every point she honored
with her presence. She was the objective point of
attraction to the grave and gay, to the solemn and
severe. But while she outwardly accepted, and with
pleasure, the homage men deemed themselves
privileged to bestow, those familiar with the
skeleton in the closet of Madeline R.'s heart,
speak of her as one who suffered in silence, until
it was a change or a mad-house, and she sought the
change.

Those who were visitors to, or residents of New
York city during 1867 will remember the advent of
Walter Montgomery, the English actor. He came
almost unheralded, but in the brief period of his
sojourn

ACHIEVED A DRAMATIC TRIUMPH

unparalleled in the history of the American stage.
In form and appearance he was a magnificent
creation. A trifle larger than Edwin Booth, with
a physique modelled by the master-hand of nature,
a physiognomy of classic outlines, and a genius
for his art, that is said to have rivalled that
displayed by the most noted histrions of the
English stage. In all respects he is said to have
been as ravishingly perfect as the forms Angelo
hewed from blocks of marble, or Guido traced on
canvas, which to-day haunt the memory as a
vanished gleam of sunlight, that kissed life's
rippling river--and then was gone. In addition to
the qualities mentioned there was entire absence
of the shilly-shallying practices many actors
delight to indulge, in their efforts to secure
applause or attract the admiration of susceptible
females. He was esteemed, an accomplished artist
and true man. He opened at Niblo's in "Ruy Blas,"
making his headquarters at the Metropoli