F all who figure in public during their lives, whom biographies are written after their be difficult to name a man or woman of any profession towards whom the world feels more kindly than towards the heroes and heroines of the stage. There is a glamour about them which is not al ways justified by their achievements, and which Is seldom justified by their personality. It Is not so much because they were great that we remember them, as because they interested us. We cannot be said, indeed, to remember them at all; it isthepartswhich theyplayed thatwere member, the tragic or comic masks which they wore, and to which they imparted for the time being a more potent individuality than their own. It is not the elder Booth, say, who rises so vividly before the mind's eye it is the crook-backed tyrant into whose devilish nature he entered so vigorously. It is Richard that we see, or Sir Giles Overreach, or Pascara, not Junius Brutus Booth, scholar, madman, and man of genius.

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