larity, gayety of manners, and
vivacity of action. In tragic characters, not only in the fiery, the
impassioned, and the grand, but in those of pomp and solemnity, he is
said to be original, great, and striking. On his Hamlet and Macbeth the
critics seem to have dwelt with peculiar attention and pleasure.

Speaking of Mr. Y's Hamlet, a learned and perspicuous critic says "A
performance exhibiting stronger marks of genius, finer animation, or
happier display of intellect we have seldom witnessed. Mr. Young has
studied this masterpiece of Shakspeare with infinite care, not merely as
to the text and general scope of the character, but throughout all its
shades and gradations, discriminating with the utmost truth and nicety,
each particular feature of Hamlet, and presenting a whole so finished
and forcible, as to leave the strongest impressions on the mind of his
audience." The same critic enters, with a spirit derived from a lively
admiration of his subject, into the whole of Mr. Young's Hamlet, of
which he speaks in a strain of warm eulogy. Adverting to the
instructions given by Hamlet to the players, he pays Mr. Y. this elegant
compliment: "The instructions to the players could not be better
delivered. His own sensible performance was an apposite illustration of
the excellent lesson which Shakspeare has in this scene bequeathed to
the profession." And he concludes thus: "He is indeed an acquisition of
importance. Of _intellectual_ actors we have very few. _Strutters_ and
_bellowers_ we have in abundance. We therefore hail Mr. Young's
appearance with more than usual satisfaction; and the more so, since we
hear that his manners are highly estimable in private life. _On_ and
_off_ the stage he will thus prove an ornament to his profession."

Mr. Young has played, besides the characters already named, Rolla,
Penruddock, Lothaire, Othello, George Barnwell, Octavian, Osmond (Castle
Spectre) Hotspur, Frederick in Lovers Vows, Petruchio, Gondebert, and
many others, if not all with equal excellence, at least with so much as
to rank him among the first masters of the art.

Mr. Young's face and person are said to be of a superior order. A good
height, his figure is well formed; his features expressive and flexible;
his voice, from the lowest note to the top of its compass, excellent,
and his action and deportment gentlemanly and graceful.

An actress of as great promise as any that has appeared on the British
theatre in the memo