New-York tribune., 1886-07-11

failed carnod scanty living as hawker in the streets
7, Inn nD%'V 10 an sstnae child Ths woman Nance
Carey tha andaughter OF Henry tarey e nuthor VI
OF George Seville Marquis OF Halifax. whose ma ural son
Henry Carey Three montns niter hls nir,n sie
serted her child. leaving him without word OF an"osy
or re ret 10 the care who nad eft"nhed per
in hcr trouble mere sketch or MA carry nc -ap,c
mrse Life of Edmund Kean would give sufficient
idea of what he must have endured aud sr hered When
which, without erargeraton one might say he shaved
almost from his cradle had reaped ts own reward 10 tne
then averse respectable conventionaity crate anh
evrns.pated il hs hanrs. let us mercituy remcm.es es
the hitter and degrading sufcings which 10 passed
through In his child oo and not Judge 700 harshy lne
actor Unlike Those whose lives had nst pen cPn
sidoret, he knew OF The softrnhg lnhnrhces ol
home; to him tho very name OF mot.er instead q" r,c. AZ
eryi tender and afectioDatc feeling was mt Tue
symbol OF vague horror the fountain Oh tn' ,itr ue
tIou OF his nature. rom which 10 subsequent p"sp'R -
roud redeem it. For many years after ho'ood MS
life was one OF continual hardship With That nhsu
dued conviction of his own powers which oen Is .o
struggled throagh the scrdd misrrcs OF strollne
players lie In the result he exercised over us aidi
by any Garrick no doubt his superior
in parts Of high comedy In such prts as
in IdQO and above all Ot,euo. II might te nouueu
whether Edmund kean ever had an equal ~ ,h ~. ~ 'u hv
the intellectual men ami from INC accounts v,
those who saw him in his prime be- WAS The creates,
genius that stage had Seen Unequal II" might
have been. perhaps often so: but th"re were moen, ~
his acting Which were witnnut exaggeraon' mments
OF Inspiration. Coeridse repore sd to nave sa tae M
to SEQ Kean act VS. ;iko reading sh"K.sraae 2 ~
fla hes OF lightning" That oft, quoted sentence e-
hed,ed, perhaps, the fentnre OF Edmund kcah
creatures. sciOr for when he was nnIrrs"n,n.'n @
the poet he revealed their natures ~ f
nsant fash Of light searching lhat every minnie
feature. which by the ordinary lict OF day was a ~
ishle stood brigHt and clear before You Tie ener
such aching indeed that OF lightning; u apl%neI,,
the mid hid their and fashionable society sh''A
from such heart piercing revelations OF human fshrn
1t mg gut doubted whether there ever was ih hcoI
who so though; bis part who closely studru WI
the Inward eve the artist the wave oi eu"tih tnat
might have agtatrd the Minds of the beings who'd ''
represented IL had been said that kean swept away to
Ke hles and their cas-ra scnoOl of acting IL was
idle to " that because Joan Kembes style was s"iem
and slow he was Of the greatest actors tat our
stage had produced The world OF art wa Wlde eh1usn
for both and hearts OF those W. Truly oNct ar
large enough cherish the memory o ooth ~ o
men WI did II be work iu their profession Mean
blended the realistic with tho Ideal IN acilhe tnu
founded school OF which William Charles hacr Any Wa
the foremost disciple. Thus had they glanced "rl~ny
emo oar OF greatest actors whose names "ere
lapiuarks in the history OF the greatest .rana o inc
| world IL had been how Hhcy all carrie out oy
different methods. perhaps. but in the same spiu tl"
principle tia. acting uatrie mpst d0minat" at. bu
was art that must interpret nature ana 10 interpret
the thoughts anl of her mistress must De hct
first object These thoughts. these emotions must lie
incrpreted with with dienity, ana VII tenf
ance these it should be remembered art alohe coda
teach.