The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1877-07-08
1MfSFgfENTS.
A Suburban OnIninn.

| play with the feelings In the unwhOpsOmo
theatre. and Ia playing croouette I'm clocked
stockings up the river.
She reminds you very much, "a she moves
about IN a white dress on that close-cut lawn
(which is unusually green this yenr with tho
continuous june rains). and leans so prnce-
! fully or her p,nk nnll,t of onc ~ p,u,I,nn,s
long-wasted maidens-those lawn angels who
always came to earth with their hair dressed
in the latest style and dropped their tears over
the dead robin or the last rose of summer with
such charming nafvete.
But even Boushton could not paint the pic
! ture in which Camille Is now set l think
those long shadows that the olms flina across
the sward would bafrls him. He might catch
the hue. but he could never catch the restful-
ness the airy brightness of H. The silver
| openings In the trees, where the summer WA
ters flash mistily and dreamy sails float by do
not make II picture. but collection OF them 80
that Camille stands there leaning on her
mallet in gallcry-and never did the stage
manager throw upon her such light MS that
which now touches the frils on her low fore
head and turns them into yellow mist. and
| tips the folds OF her white dress with spangles
| out OF the west. The very ball that lies under
her slipper CLEANS like the pippin that beauty
won on Mount Ida.
Happy goddess" said. " who has come into
the sunshine TO make a picture OF herself where
there are no spectators, and who plays GRO
quette by herself"
It's the hardest playing ever did" she re-
piled. think II was invented by the modistes.
The real duty of this hour il TO sit there in
rustic seat and watch the trains 20 by-or medi-
tate
AZ II goddesses ever meditated."
An yes. shc cried. As IL actresses ever
rested or retired, or dreamed like other people
| OF secluslon ana rest. Come here. III you bend
| o"wn ana look through those juniper branches
you Will see granite pile. 1t ia one OF the
sulteliest on the river bank. Sit down here.
These are some books have been reading"
" Its Forests castle" / said.
True. and that's Ayers Life OF Edwin
Forrest Have you read IN"
No. You shall read me some OF It,"
:" I'll do better. Illdiscuss it with you. was
going TO say that the stone pile over there Is
always sad reminder to me that the actor is
continually thinking OF that rest which lies Just
outside OF his profession. Forrest promised
himself repose when he reared that tower. II is
monument OF gentle ambition. The book is
record of his failure"
Failure p
Oh. yes. SO far AS his own happiness IL con-
ccrned. Even Mr. Alger who writes more like
critic than bographer. betrays the sorrows
OF tue great heart he describes. Let me tell you
somothing-Naiure inncts an awful penalty on
people VINO develop their feelings at the ex-
pens" OF everything else. All great players pay
this forfeit. II is only now and then that one
like Forrest attracts attention 10 his throes by
their violence
Has Mr. Aeer done the player full iustice?"
He has tried hard enough. II he has not sue
ceeded IT WAS because justice in such n case can
not be measured out 10y the reason. He has de-
scrioed Forrest; don't thnk he has interpreted
him. / was thinking the other day what a fine
subject Charles keadc would have had thcrel"
Yes. replied. laughing. Charles Reade ap-
pears TO he always looking for something Just
atrinr more elemental than English society az
lords. l was amused to find in his last book
'ilat MS 'hl"i delight IN the American lady
doctor was not her science. but her audacity.
And roared outright when compared
her professional achievements with her profess
sional struggles. What is one TO think Of the
LhS'ish landed gentry when an American girl
has to come three thousand miles. break down
all their barriers. and snow them that -tagnant
surface water Is unw.oIesomo as steady
drink
me opon-ey"d establishment and admiration
OF Harrington Ward when Rhoia Gale points
this out To him leads me- TO believe that popular
science in England is confined entirely TO the
lower classes. But this is aside from our theme.
| was going TO say that Mr.. Algcr accounts in
his book for everything-eNccpt Mr.. Forrest
hho cannot be aecount-o1rI. -h p
Not by analyst. who betrays himself while
he Is looking Tor the secret, and gives u ten
pages OF Alsrr philosophical, rhetorical. moral.
10 one OF Forest. j, Is a noble tribute 10 learn
ING but do you Know | should have preferred a
simple Qualification Of affection -
Aye but II was written 10y Il scholar. not bya
mere man. And It did not occur ~ him that
women would crlticse IT,
II calls the great actor an elemental man.
rather deprecatinsly. think. and says he never
would conform To the requirements Of fashion
able society don't think that it occurs Ia Mr..
Ager that this unwilling compliment is the
handsomost OF the many compliments the book
contains.
What does Mr.. Alser mean by fashionable
society,"
On. understand him 10 mean not only the
e"ntccl but the intellectual classes. whose dicta
Forrest always secuted"
And do you think Forrps. did wisely p"