New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-10-27
autumn. She is to act there during the months
Of September and October 1896.

AN OlDllME AtIKEoc bo-'
On my last day In London l attended the
funeral OF Mrs. Frank Marshall, known 10 'he
stage as Miss Ada Cavendish You remember he'
as Mercy Merrick and Miss Gwilt ana no oouo'
you recall her proud. white beauty ana her I'M
petuous spirit. She was not memoer Oh 'he
reserved power school. She did not uy u LOON
like painted figure in church-wihdo"' ""e
nut her soul into all that she did. and 1t was
soul of passionate power. lofty purpose ana Won
derful sweetness. She was not indeed. Of the
historical kind: she had intellectual character
and artistic CONTROL but she acted from the heart
and she had heart from which to act. In her
prosperous days she was m ich followed and ad-
mired hut the mourners beside her coffin were
few and mostly they were such az know that for
them also the summons Is not distant. She was
laid in Kensal Green. that sad sepuchre of so
many Of the once famous and glorious. who now
are nothing but names. After the servce-it was
at ST Georges Albemarle-st.-I talked awhile
with Miss Agnes Robertson Mrs Dion Bouci-
caulO and took leave Of that old friend,-a more
touching exponent OF the strang' v!cissitudes OF
mortal experience than even the garlanded hearse
that we followed.
THE HEMINGE-CONDELL MONUMENT.
shakespearians. the world over. glad
dened that the editors Of the First Folio of the
poet his fellow actors and personal friends,
Hemnge and Condell. are, at last, to be com
memorated with monument They were, in
deed in no likelihood Of being forgotten. The
great service that they rendered to the world
precuded all chance Of that. But 1t Is fitting
that memorial should be set up. to men who
were among the greatest benefactors OF the
human race. But for Heminge and Condell
many Of the works OF Shakespeare would prob
ably. have perished-a loss that must have I'M
poverished individual experience and social CIV
ilization. To the friendly. provdent. conscien-
tous labor Of John Heminge and Henry Con-
dell we owe the preservation OF much that is
most precious in English literature. They re-
ceived Shakespeare's papers from him with
scarce a blot" and. deploring that death had
prevented him from collecting his writings and
publishing them under his personal supervision
they prepared that precious volume which. for
all intellectual persons throughout the world. is
the richest legacy of the past. They were resi-
dents Of the parish Of Aldermanbury London
Heminge for more than forty-two years Con-
dell for more than thirty. Their graves are in
the Church OF st. Mary's in that parish Con-
dell was buried December 90. 1927; Heminge,
October r. 1890 The monument to commemo
rate them,-a granite structure. suitably In
scrbed,-has been given by Mr. c. c. Walker. of
Salop and II will presently be erected in the
churchyard Of st. Mary's Aldermanbury 1t is
also purposed to erect statue OF Sarah Siddons
on Paddington Green. London. near to the old
churchyard OF Paddington. where she was
buried. Mrs. Sddons according to the best
testimony that survives. was the greatest female
actor that ever trod the stage, and the design
to raise her statue should certainly be fulfilled.
AT one time II intended to place copy OF
Chantreys statue Of her as Lady Macbeth. A
few days ago l passed the house at the top OF
Baker-st., in which she lived and died. and
observed that II Is now q private hotel. where
lodgings may be hired: but few subjects Of con-
temptation are more melancholy. for the anti
quarian. than the changes that going on
in the city Of London. 1t is the Paradise OF
Cities the centre Of life and art. but the old
things that endear ii to the student Of his
tory and literature are passing away. w. w.