Waterbury evening Democrat., 1891-08-06

in New York not long after that date
 The future professionally Is full of hope and encouragement to me; what ever my critics may have thought fair to say of me in the past after two years of faithful and industrious application and of varied and eventful experience, I am willing again to trust myself to their verdict, both in my new dramas and in the roles in which they are fa- miliar with me.
 Pecuniarily my venture in Australia, India, China and Japan has been profit able to high degree.
 Japan is a most lovely country. My trip of recitals through China has been, am glad to say. exceedingly success full. We left Bombay on April 24, on the P. and o. steamer Ravenna, bound for Hong Kong, Shanghai and Yokoha- ma Our friends came down to the Victoria dock to see us off, ruany of them with "Old Glory' in their hands and on their carriages, and believe the Stars and Stripes never had quite such an enthusiastic ovation here as in the crowd on the pier that morning. I only gave six plays in Bombay, "Tosca," ''Frou Frou," Camille" ''David Gar rick" "She Stoops to Conquer" and ''The Lady of Lyons," supplementing these with recitaIs from Hamlet" 'Romeo and Juliet" Richard III." and Macbeth"
 It Is these last that have been using on my recital tour through China. The season in Bombay was as successful pecuniarily as 1t seemed to be other wise.
 On Saturday, May 15, we opened at the Theater Royal in Hong Kong. China and Japan are scarcely large enough for company, but for recital tour of six weeks they offer splendid field. They are in very close touch with the United States.
 India, of course, is more English. rokio, the capital of Japan, is a very large city, but of course does not seem Eauch after the big Indian cities.
 Japan seems to me like toy coun- Ey, the houses and people are all so rmal. Oh, the lovely silks! and the lovely curios! they pass all words!
 do not know whether it is generally appreciated in New York or not, but it is great deal cheaper to buy Japanese goods there, strange as 1t may seem, than it is here in Japan, for some req son or other Japan and China are very expensive countries either to shop or to live in. Perhaps the foreigners, Eng fish and Americans especially, have made this so. But a dollar here goes about as far as a rupee in India or a shilling in London.
 We have been in Yokohama four or five days, and are delighted with its surroundings. At the Japanese navy orI 3e away, met an old friend, an American, named Harold Dulaney, a southerner, who is leading the most curious kind of life here. He and were at one time, when I was very young, excellent friends, and I cannot tell you what 8 shock it gave me to have him suddenly come before me after so many years absence, in Japanese garb, with his head shaved, barefooted, leading the life of a hermit in rocky cave in the hills just outside of the Buddhist tenn pie near the navy yard.
 :: He sent me his card-fancy 0 bare footed hermit having cards, but I learned afterwards that in his cave he had a great many of his American traps-and said he knew me at glance. It was a long, long time, however, be- fore I could reconcile myself to looking upon the face of my old friend amid such painful surroundings in a strange land. From what I gather, he has a religious monomania, and expects to become a Buddhist priest.
 This is decidedly a foreign city, that is, foreign to Japan, there are so many Americans, English and Germans in business here. Yeddo is only half an hour away by rail. There is a splendid hotel here; by the way, several of them, indeed. s. F. Wolfe, formerly of San Francisco, and who at one time, be- heve, thought of establishing theater here, has a charming caravansary, which faces on the water. The growth of the city is astounding, considering that thirty-fve years ago it was only fishing village.
 judge from what you write me that q great many curious things have been published about me from time to time in the two years which have elapsed since I left New York. I rejoice that the time Is so near at hand when I shall have an opportunity of correcting those that need correcting and of setting myself right in the eyes of the public which has, here and everywhere, been so generous to me. My plans for next season are not yet settled, but expect that they will be by the 18th of August.
 Yours with friendship ever, G.LuLAi| B.