The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-10-27

~of a life Of Garrick which had been ex-
tended to ten volumes by the insertion of
several hundred portraits, engrayings-
eplaybills, and autograph letters, and Tie
other a volume which had been enlarged
from two volumes to seven by the@addi-s
ton of 500 Illustrations; but the ssaddi-
tional prints included not only Garrick
but a small army of contemporaries Il he
Harvard collection, originally brought to-
gether by London amateur and sold to
the university by we'll known London
dealer, consists of PIG prints, all of which
are pictures of the actor himself
The collection, valuable first of all to
students of the drama or of manners, is
of very general interest as a basis for
comparing the theatrical situation Of our
own time with that of the latter half Of
the. eighteenth century. 1t is interesting
to know. for instance, that even before
the era of photography the features of H
star like Garrick We're reproduced by
the artists brush and the engraverts
BURN almost as generously as now by
the camera. Garrick was painted not
once but many times each by Hogarth.
by Gainsborough. by Sir Joshua Reyn-
olds, and by Zoffani-to say nothing OF
less famous artists-and these paintings
were again and again copied by various
engraverS. Inthe Harvard collection some
few of these engravings are familiar
enough-like Hogarth's picture of Carrick
in the tent scene in Richard Ill, or like
Sir Joshua Reynolds "Garrick between
Tragedy and Comedy with its explana-
tory inscription, "Strive not tragedy nor
comedy to engross a Garrick who to
your noblest characters does equal hon
or Others. showing the actor in his
various characters, or pieturing him as
figure of caricature, are perhaps more in
teresting because less well known SIS
Among the works of the better known
artists are a print engraved from Rey-
nold's painting of Garrick as Kitely in
Rare Ben Jonson's Every Man in His
Humor;" and prints of Hogart's paint
ings of Garrick as the Farmer in the
now forgotten play, the Farmers Re-
turn" and of Garrick and his wife. the
dancer, Mile Violetti An earlier en-
craving, dated 1743, and printed for n.
Baldwin Jr., at We Rose in Paternoster
Row" shows the two before their mari
riage, and a later print, etched by j. b.
Crulkshank, in 1920, shows Mrs. Garrick
at the great age of nfnety-seven. more
than forty years after her husband S
death.
Of~the characters acted by Garriek-in
all something over 100-twenty-four are
repr esented in the collection. These char
acter portraits, accordingly, represent
very well the activity of the actor-1nan-.
ager-for, like many of the leading.
lights of the modern stage, he served IN
both capacities-and show also the sur
vival of the fittest as it applies to dra-
mat1c literature Richard III, - Bene-
dict in Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth Lear and Hamlet, are
still acted. The others, some of which
are from plays that still have an estab-
lished position in the library, but the
majority from pieces practically forgot
ten even by the reader, are as follows
Abel Drugger in the .'Alchemist;'' Mr..
F'rfbble in Miss in Her Teens" one of
the plays written by Garrick himselfs
Leon, in Rule a Wife and Have a
Wife," Fernandez in 'Euridice;" Lord
Gladstone in "Lethe;" Demetrius- in the
Brothers." Kitely in Every Man In
His Humor; 'The Countryman," in the
prologue to "Barbarossa - Ranger in the
Suspicious Husband; Sir John Brute
in the Provoked Wife,, the Farmer in
the Farmers Return. Lusignan in
"Zara;" Don John in the "Chances,,
Don Felix in the '-Wonder;'' Osmyn In
the Mourning. Bride The Drunken
Sailor, in the prologue to ..Britannia:',
Archer in the "Beau's Strategem:,, Ed
ward in Edward the Black Prince"
and Bayes in the "Rehearsal"-a part
which was written as 'take-off'' on
| the great Johnny Dryden, but which was
later successfully adapted to include inn
ltations of prominent contemporary ae-
tors, and which was finally abandoned
+ by GarIick in answer to their remon
| strange that the success Of his ,nfnicTy
was spelling their standing with audi
eflceS
tsfThe costuming of these character por-
traits presents some curious anomalies.
AS is generally known, accuracy Of Co.'S