Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1889-03-31

try. may" said the man who de-
nounccd him, when asked il he was sure
OF his identity--and who had been tried
before him can never forget those
eyes anywhere But this particular
pair OF terrible eyes had no dignity OF
terror in any shape about them. Despite
the chief iusticeship they we're simply
tho opponents OF blind, furious, half
insane, vulgar rsncour, and in this re.
spect may be considered-difierences OF
time and position being allowed for-as
very much akin TO Caesar Borgia's. The
only portrait of the Chief Justice, by
the way, which is publicly known does
not possess eyes OF any particular terror,
bat rather OF placid, dreamy, thought
full repose whether owing to the artists
fattery or to the Chief Justice being so
Der at the time, we cannot decide.
Not only in real life have there been
terrible eyes Some there are IN the
mimic life OF the stage, which CLEAN Tor
rs with thrilling effect through the vista
OF time and memory. Prominentamong
them are those Of Edmund Kean, pro-
badly OF all English actors (unless the
ancient traditions OF Burbage and Bet
terton be taken as accurately the most
successful ia inspiring terror in bis great
impersonations. Here and there nemeets
with people old enough to remember
him, and their evidences, few and far be-
tween as they are, 60 to confirm all that
has been written about what DR.. Doran,
himself witness. calls "those match
less eyes" 1t is in Othello and the last
scene of Richards fierce career, as also
in Zanga, that all-popular consensus
goes to establish the terror-inspiring ef-
feet of Kean's fiery glances; but it Is
probable, though not SO we'll known,
that an effect even more appalling was
produced by the glance of fury and de-
SPAR in the final sceneo of Sir Giles Over
reach's defeat With his may be brack-
eted the dreadful look of Siddons IN
the sleep walking scene, and certainly,
to take more modern instance, which
must live In the recollection of all who
witnessed them, of the terrible express
sion OF Rachel's eyes in some OF her
diving scenes. OF the far-darting
eve" of Garrick, Hazlitt has spoken,
but in the special phase of terror it does
not seem to have equalled Edmund
Kean's.
Of more ignoble instances some might
be found, but murderers, Lavater to the
contrary notwithstanding, do not seem,
as a rule, to have possessed particularly
murderous-looking orbs. Still to our
own individual notion there is one muir
deress whose counterfeit presentment
possesses q pair of eyes with great faclli-
ties for causing feeling of fear IN the
beholder. And in life she was credited
with most witch-like brillisnce and in
fiuence in those large, lustrous, and ma
lignsnt orbs, SO much so that it is said on
very good authority that the detective
who brought her from Scotland, and 80
on the first stage which ended on the
scafiold, was SO overcome with their fas-
cination that he never afterward got
over having been the means of putting
her neck into the hangmsns hands
The reader can Judge for himself the
next time he visits Nine. Tussaud's, and
if he agrees with us he will probably
concur in thinking, when considering
the facts of her history, that those are
a pair OF terrible eyes which stoutly
glare on the spectators from the counter
felt impression of the features OF Mrs.
Manning.