New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-03-20

uhnkt WHO pound 70 6veDge his fath9r; the
other, the Hamlet Who watches complscsn.y to rc>-
tor on hor tha, Hsme. il going to sveoge him.
Such, to our fancy, was the ideal Of Sn,kspers.
such was the Hamlet which the traditions Of the glo-
nous Garick, which the graceful fancy Of Kemble
ard the polished perception and mscdlous elocution
OF Young taught to love aud treasure a. some
beautiful llufion Such vas the asnIe, whose pale
Thoughtful form occasionally broke beautifully
brosgh the hard msoDeisn of Macready and thu
exaggerated rant of Kean. Such il the Hamlet
Of Dervient who without tn phi, scia 20 yer to give
life to bis conception hiss perhsps grssped the idsa Of
Shakspere better tn any actor of day. But of
fbis, as Of many other beautiful illusions in life
find ourselves suddenly dsenchanted. Slch was
not the Hsmle. which Mr.. Edwin Forres. produced to
acroWded, discriminating and consequently, cold .u
dieDce, ct the Broadway, last night. Instead Of
dreamy youth ever wandering on the gloomy shore
Of suicide, and full Of a strange melancholy conscious
ness Of his inability to make thing Of life out Of his
world Of ideal and dreams, We found a broad. sbou.-
dereo, athletic midde.sged NAB, kn, in coarse vgor,
who seemed to writhe most uncomfor.ably under the
load CT sseet fsncies and dreamy, phiosophic
thoughts which tbropged upon hin. Ins'esd of,
in the scene with his fathers ghost, the ideal
of the sensitive and highly intellectual youth
sturg in bs tenderest Affection and driven 10 seek
righteous revenge for an unboly deed, have the
coarse rage of rpfian tod Of rival bullys murder
CT soma bu'chery Of one Of hi, gang, and thirsing
to eut his fury. The Hsmle, Of Mr.. Forests crea-
ton possesses all those qualities whici would have
gathered honor in Stan Xix II ALL aud when he entered
in tie grave-y ard soene could not help feeling
that be looked eminenty fitted to figure a, chief
nourner at late faDera pageant in our city There
sre many in our country, whose tine aad taste enc
bling them to cultivate fancy possess perhaps high
or spd keouer sense of the beautiful thsn TO be found
in SOY ott er land There also perhaps even
many whose coarser habits aud pursuiis may lead
them 10 prefer violent ply steal feats of voice and att
tude 10 pure and be autu conception To tie tastes Of
these latter the animal strength and passion Of
Mr.. Forrest may psnder, but surely they would
find filter field 10 such characters as Jack Cade
than in the dreamy, melancholy Prince Of Denmsrk.
When his features shonld have been 10 repose, the
agonies ef the lss rattle still distorted the N. When
they should have been sgated, tbs agony Of prep
arstion for repose struggles through the effort. In
the love rupture with Ophea, when for moment
the memory Of his los, love steals softly upon Hamlet
Mr. Forrest took leave with the mau1ln sen'i-
mentality of Captain Costgsn parting with NEE
daughter; and in the celebrated scene OF TIE play
before the King, he had for more the air of some
huge gypsy, watching with roguesh glance an oppor-
tunity to rob the ben-roost than highly intellectual
analyzer of nature trying to descry On the hu nan
countenance the evidence Of its guilt. In melo-
dram attic parts, Mr.. Forests great physical power
end coarse vigor may win lot him success bnt when
he attempts to defle the farest creations, the beau.
teous temple Of Shaksperesn genius, we call out with
bis fathers ghost;
Murder most foul as In the best is;
Bot this most foul, strange aud unnstuIaL'