The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-12-15

until she was taken i'll and to a hospital
There she was nurSed back to health, and
another patient, Russian widow, makes
Mile. Walanon both happy and comfort
able by dying and leaving her what is
known as a Snug" fortune. After all this
and more we are treated to the Strong"
third act, in which the heroine meets no
less a person than the Marquis d'Aumale,
the same Marquis whose Establishments
she found it impossible to resist when she
was quite a chit, and Fedora like, she
rules him and weds him. The ceremony
over she tells her newly welded husband
that she hates him. has married him for
revenge only, and that she will never live
with him. Poor Marquis is rather per-
picked, as well he might be. For in the
last act we learn that the Marquis is
highly respectable Marquis-not the Sc
ducer-but only his twin brother Shades
of Manrico and Count Luna. Nine. Pach-
eco has not the courage Of her opinions,
or she would not have ended her sensa-
tional story in so eminently proper a man
ner.
The publication by the Century COM
pany, of recollections of Edwin Booth,
by his daughter, Mrs. Grossmann, to-
gether with many letters written at
various times by the great tragedian,
is an event fairly to be counted as nota-
able in the theatrical world. What
Shakespeare was to written English
Booth certainly has been to the de-
claimed word as 1t is known upon the
mimetic stage. Anything by or of him
| must always prove interesting, increas-
4 inulU nj ,ri,t hi-
melancholy personality the touch of
sanctity inseparable from distance.
Judging from printed extracts, without
having seen the book itself it may be
said Mrs. Grossmann recollects that her
father was trustful and childlike; fond
of home and its adornments and asso-
Citations; loyal to friends; charitable to
the poor; reverent of the old; chivalrous
toward women dignified and reticent
in the face of detraction; patient under
trials; playmate with children;
thoughtful of others; modest; simple;
religious; a sedulous cutivator of hope
full and cheerful views,-notwlthstand
ing inherent melancholy; a believer in
his destiny, after the manner of Napo-
leon; gifted with a keenly discerning
eye and powerfully tenacious mem
ory; systematic in business affairs: a
clever musician, a good amateur sculp-
tor, and good writer.
Speaking of this publication the New
York Tribune says: Mrs. Grossmann'
collection, while far from being COM
plete, presents several epistles that are
of peculiar interest. Booth was not q
man of action and of practical affairs.
His interest in everyday things was Ian
guild. He possessed administrative tai
ents, but he seldom cared to exert them,
and he never eXerted them continu-
ously for any great length of time. His
interest in his own pursuits was inter-
mittent. He could be practical, and he
was as sagacious and prudent and pro-
vident as any body, when he chose to be,
and when he was in the mood; but he did
not care enough for the things of the
world to be bound by them: his
thoughts were often far away; and the
rewards that most people value were
held by him in very slight esteem. Il
would rather be an obscure farmer
he wrote to his daughter in 1890, than
the most distinguished man on earth.
Persons who set great store by the
praise of other people cannot under
stand that state of mind. Edwin Booth
had taken the measure of popular
applause and he knew what 1t was
worth. Nature, he added, cast me for
the part she found me best fitted for,
and have had to play 1t, and must play
1t until the curtain falls The curtain
has fallen, and he who lived only for
the happiness of others, who asked moth
ing for himself-and, generally speak
Ing, got nothing-has gone home to the
hearts that loved him and the life for
which he longed."
Speaking of the Booth letters con-
tained in this book, the most interest
ing one Is about his infamous brother,