New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-14

first illustration Of the phantasmatograph "hicE
propose to put before you taxes the FORM -.
the appartion Of the dead Julius caesar III tiIe
tent of Brutus' Almost as he spoke tle lasl
word at one and the same moment the nghts
grew dim the room took upon ii the sempiahoe
cf Brutuss tent, with the sleeping I'll
Mr. de Sartorys sat before us, no iohger III W. s
cut evening dress, but goWned IKE brutuS ~
the night and Caesars ghost, unmistakapie lroii,
it's likeness to the busts stood stern anu &C.
i'm front of Brutus as Brutus spoke tne opern, s
words of his speech: How i'll this taper pul 10.
NV exnerience in such matters Is, as you kho",
far from limited, and yet 90 not "eiI a. 20
how TO describe or at any rate how TO denhe ~
Won the extraordinarily ghostly ana sPeC'I"
ironression which the image OF dead Cesar pro
duced upon me. l get nearest 10 IL pei . .'P
by saying that 1t was less lke sno .I;r In
like the ghost Of ghost, haVlns ooI sStrange
common with the Scn-L8ea OF BulWei . 'Ila tt
story and yet being apparent IN l .i,
terrible way to the sight as to give IGl ,"
shivery feeling even to me-a 1eellIlS M.a1,,,,
perfectly conscious was lar NH this singular
aroused in the other spectators OF TINS SHE ui a.,
performance And when the ghost spoke' 10
voice produced the same kind or linple ia
upon the ear with which lts app ~ h image
shocked the eye; insomuch that as the i,'"s
dsappeared with the fatefu WORDS Ay, o.
Philippi' there was an actual sign VI 100 90
from those who had heard ana seen thie '''""e
scene.
Not more than ten seconds can nave passeu
between the utterance Of the word 'Phillppl anu
the restoring by some amazing metnou vi I'
room to its former aspect. The sleeping alteiii
ants the walls and the furniture OF the tent nau
all vanished as into thin air The cohceaeu
lights were up again. and showed US, instead VI
the magnificent Brutus Mr.. de SartOrys IN
passbe save maybe for a slight touch vi eA
ultation which fanced to detect and pollshed
as before. L perceive he SAID, very quIetiS'
from the absence of any outward tcrm Oh dp-
prova on your part that have done soilletninSS
more than deserve applause have compe,eu
attention even from DR. Mantis and from MI
Peregrine and now, with your PERMISSION we
will move from Sardis to ElSinore.' AGAIN on
the very utterance of the concluding Woru' thO
room disappeared and in It's stead one saw the
battlements Of Elsinore, but as, believe tney
have never been seen before on any stage Inc
room was. of course, small. but TINS scehe cdl
ried with ii an ineHabe sense Oh 'asthe"S,
grandeur desolaton and impending woe.
have left you to infer rather than distinctly tou
you, that Sartorys's Brutus was most Ihpress Nv
'The same thing holds good of the Hamlet INTO
which as in the case of Brutus, he was trans
formed as If by magic q use the term OF course;
with a sense of it's possible significance. ana OF
every transformation which he went throueh ue
fore orr very ewes But as in the previous
scene ii was the Ghost that riveted the atten-
ton of eye and ear You may remember as l
do, 4 certain description of Macready Ghost III
which il is said that without any trlcKery OF VOICE
his tones seemed to come from another Worio'
They were audible, quite audible; but they were
without resonance. They seemed 10 proceeu
from a being apart who had seen what we
could not see This. but intensified to an ex-
traordinary degree was the effect produced by
seeing and hearing this Ghost Of King Hamlet
produced somehow by Mr.. de Sartorys In Nor
tons room. And with it, as before and as ar
terward the strange sense OF its being less
a ghost than ghosts spectre
ION the words remember me- both the room
and Mr.. de Sartorys resumed their natural
aspect Mr. de Sartorvss face on this occasion
dispayed an undoubted look, yelled though II
was by good breeding. of delight in achieved
success Also the look of innate power in II
which had noticed at our first interview was
more strongly marked. and there was another
and new expression in 1t which did not then
find myself at all able to decipher. l looked
round at Mantis to see II | could hnd any re-
fection in his face that might give me ciew
but | saw only that look of puZzledom when
my own face might have worn If 1t were less
trained to impassiveness, while in the man OF
sciences face there was simply lncreduIty
struggling with bewilderment. Morton need
say nothing about-you know how he would
look. On looking back at Mr. de Sartorys was
we'll assured that he had taken all thls III
though his features would not have betrayed
the fact to any but specially trained observer
He made no sort Of comment upon what haI
passed before going on to say: l snail now III
, on please pass from Shakespeare to one on
whom has been from long ago conferred the
great title of Wizard He gave sudden sweeping
look all around him out of his curious eyes
eyes indefinable even to me- II seemed 10 me
that he held himself ready TO DEFY any comment
or challenge on that one word wizard. 1 mean
he continued. recovering his old manner. scott
not the discoverer OF witchcraft, but his name
sake WITH q inherent SpeliliiS ehC ZOO" Va
North. Waiter Scott You remember now. IN
"Waverley" Vch Ian Vohr saw the Bodach
Glas
LAS Sarorys spoke the words, the room In
which he stood again vanished-or. rather, in
simultaneously gave place to lonely misty
scene. The background was yelled in obscurity
with footbridge in front. along which Mr. de
Sartorys in the likeness Of Fergus Mclvor. brave
and brilliant in pladed array, paced, with head
bent as if in sadness and forebodinR. Suddenly
he raised his mead, while a shudder ran all
through his frame, to face figure misty as the
mist itself, yet instinct with terrible sense OF
reality through the mlstinesS Fergus stopped,
made the sign of the Cross. and uttered, in ac-