New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-07
Persons

Eisna n hSa'o'u - " . :. - Edward Arnott
Lord Edenssl.; NJ e' HOLLAND
Donald Lindsay NV M' sh n%w,m
captain WerSse MI i Sls,ns
L sdS M,,sdsa :. Ada Dyas
Ne Mary y Rivers Mrs John Seton
II will not be amss. perhaps. to REMIND the reader
If the essential elements that constitute TINS play.
The scene is laid in England. in the time OF "eorge
the Second The story is one OF love- seii-sacrice'
and heroism The chief person. Hugh Trevor Is
pieresoue unfortunate, unhappy man, who, In his ex-
pt,opal personality of amiable drifting weakness and
nis disastrous experience Of disappointment, IN
tsmreraDce and blight. blends many OF mo CHAR
actcristics and some OF thc "is"Ps "
Henry Esmond and Sidney Carton - those
great representative characters Of Thackeray ana
Dickens Hugh Trevor is the eldest son OF LORD
Edendae deceased but he is Incorrectly supposed to
~ an iIIeeitimate son. and therefore he is set aside,
ana ind6erenty and disrespectfully treated, by MS
Younger brother, who has inherited the Eoehaae
property and title This brother has Joined In the
Jacobite conspiracy of HAS Both the brothers love
the same woman Lady Msrsdea but the elder Is hope
less and SILENT while the younger is prosperous ana
favored A spy named Radford has betrayed the
YOUNG Lord Edendale but Just his arrest about to
be effected Trevor interpeses and adroitly enables him
to escape. subsequently tho fugitive is captured,
and under such circumstances as seem to warrant the
suspicion that Trevor has revealed his retreat Lady
passion bitterly upbrsids him, and as he has already
tsen repudiat BY his brother he feels himself indeed,
In he an outeast At last, when the time set for the
execution OF the condemned Lord Glendale draws near
Trevor obtains admitance to the prison and persuades
Radford, who has the custody Of the prisoner TO allow
him to take Edendales place BY this means ne saves
his brothers lfe nberates him, and restores MN 10
LADY, Mersden-himseif meanwhile going to the scafod
as the doomed c0nspirator His own integrity Is thus
vudIcstcd while his bllghted and wasted life, winch
hitherto has been trouble to Others ana caiam'ou'
tfal to himself is finally sacrificed for the woman
he loves The last words spoken by him, as ne Dends
his head TO the block, are All for her,
The spirit of this drama long ago indicated In
this place. and the comment made then naturally sug-
gests itself as appropriate now Those WHO lose, I'D
the realm ID ideal and Of the Affections. are seldom
the proper objects Of pity. Love thst wins may
perhaps, be made radiant with temporary happiness
lint love that loses is haowed immortality by
celestial sorrow. To the spirit thus bereaved there
will remain, at least a gicrions memory Notmhg
can ever SET 1t In the common hight. Nothing can ever
degrade IL into the common clay The hresde may
be lonely 10 the solitary man, who dreams BESIDE IL III
The winter night: but face, that never can lose us
divine beauty will smile upon him from the dying
embers on his hearth and one voice. that IS periect
music will speak to him In the moaning WIND. human
beings change; ideals never. Esmond may wen W.T..
ship, to his dying day, the Beatrice OF ms you'hini
dream Sidney Carton, going to death for the sake
a
and OF glory that human devotion can reach' husn
Trevor although he suffers. is triumphant. faNorea
nv all auspicious powers and happy beyond tne coi
mon lot is the whom fate dsmisses HUN .'.'
mortal state before his illusions have been aespo'o1'
and while his heart is faithful magnanimois ana pnre
life NAV head through and sorrow. TO brgn'efr
goal than ever be reached through ,e Of dsap
pointment is the lesson Of All for Her. o,,. drama
In the representation ast Night t had S beiore in this
Country Its heroine was represented n sncn wsS t
s. w %as L aa Marden acted but soul WAS
Unused into the artistic treatment Of the part 6a.
T.od av. sSsve TSe are A
WHICH CEASE at correctness This one was not
simply ssT,sts b But ns ssS.se ' nobility q
spir the distinction Of manner the dignity OF woman n
srscseements which eventually must combine 70
insle up ideal that can De aee 1en ~ GOOD
Reason and y,n Ms s Enough resent the sacrifice
nSio far Sns aud the Of such plsy
sss He n % %sssm ssrRass sss
Kendall tenderness and nes,y am, IN 'n Predominant
no less al. tan er nbs seorn Mr. Kend. Trevor
seec1ed in the sadly dro humor Of the part more
Than sd the g saa ass note
nat he does not strike. The terrible snes ~ I'LL,
WHICH Trs No ha Ss indicated By communicating Of
S NSs,msss e sr il t'ss g s
:n n. ens''Ss ssy HS ksS
- expeeed to convince his auditors IN Robert Landry
=. RaverswoOd There Is one sentence spoheem ~
ua Trevor which oompreensiyely ana '9orh nmss
luz nusn his temperament and his broken ior'nnes
an died ,,s az black g l and @ss
hsye oeen his expression of the s.mi.rsekiess hnmos
ess ronV the sadly bitter sefsnrrendera ana some
liz t,s tsx tollity OF the part. Mr. kendai was al
tunes rs,y vp Fight and eecve and altosssner ne pre-
sSpersy pictorial the manner air,ly gr Ses IN he
rs1t ~ decradation deity and snb,y sly ' ~ . h
occasional souchng gait and Riis nreseryed and Ia
49,. moment Of the remuneration OF arInk as 9 ,e
s. .0 ~ true life there was cvea.on oa ~ S
Prer The strain Of the char acter is conn"ous anu
pow severe Il was most gaiantly borne ana pernsps
~ YendaI,s ideal of Trevor Is nearer real NE INA, Ss
AL 81 II would be That is coored by PocuS s, ec
errtsin Mr.. Dodson gave most ao'c
- the odious SOY. This was the cas' A., Kendall
Trevor -.----.--''-' n DodgOn
Iadfopd Came
for1 Edendale Al g,enism
(oIonel vUiid.nan
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