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appeared in the part while he belonged to an American company of which Joseph Jefferson, the creator of Rip Van Wrinkle, was the chief actor. and that it was Jefferson who first discovered Sotherns Eenitis and. gave him the opportunity oi turning itNto immediate account. In the play as originally produced the part of Lord Dundreafy was very small aha quite insignificant, but Jefferson, who was play ing what was then a much more import- ant part encouraged Sothern to amplify 1t by new speeches and fresh humors, arid under ifls inspiration Sothern made it the great figure of the play and won a com plete success" q" g. '.f ,,
 Of the readiness of the truly great to render himself helpful and inspiring to those who are beginners in the careers that have brought fame Mir. SMcCarthy writes of Dickens:
 "Thc great novelist seemed to make it a part of his work to discover literary talent in rising young men and to give practical help to it's development. When he started Household Words he gather ed around him quite a. school of men who were then very young. and most of whom became. under his fostering care, suc- cessful and distinguished writers" :
 MT. Mccarthy writes of Dickens mar
 
 stories. he opines that the great novelist could have been equally great as an ac. | tor or as an orator He remarks on Dick ems g. success as reporter, as an editor, as a reformer. H
 Mir. McCarthys recollections of Thack- cry as lecturer. of the fascination with which he held his audiences without seeming effort, interest any adornment of impersOnation or oratory is interesting just now in connection with the appenr- ance of the new Thackery letters. In those letters Thackery tells often and can dldly how he disliked' that part of his work. his lectures. The most artistic successes are no doubt won in the. fact of most pronounced dlstaste and dlsin- clination. ...'.-t .N .i--
 Mir. Mccarthy draws for us with un- failing fascination in his touch' portraits of Crownless SoYereignties, of Don Pedro. deposed Emperor of Brazil, of Don. Carlos! He draws for uB portraits of Queens of Song. Titiens, Nilsson, Queens of Society," Lady Palmerston, La dy WaldegraNe and others He gives us pictures of Garibaldi, of Maysini, of sev- era1 more noted of the Italian sympa- thizers of England. Of the poets, the Rosettis. Browning, Tennyson.
 It iss sad task to pass through the portrait gallery where shine the faces of our contemporaries and friends, the most Of whom have gone beyond, leaving their guardian compassion here with only bright recollections. in lieu of bright in- terchange of converse and daily inter- course
 But if Mr. Mccarthy is touched with such, sadness he does not intrude his sad neas upon his reader. All his pages are infused with the brightness. the courage Ahr.k |. AN. tin Mccarthy brilliant. succeeses in dl- verse fields s--PdftraitS of the Sixties, by Justin. Mccarthy. Illustrated. Harper 6 Bros.s Publishers. Price. S2.00.s {. = -.. +s.a -r ----~--4-. = .,;
 STORIES OF ANCIA1FT GREECE. E The beautiful old stories that are ever new are retoid in & charming way by Charles D. Show. -.-'''..
 The writer draws first a pen.picture of the world of the Greeks, round and fiat with the Mediterranean Sea for it's. csn- ter. To the north lived the Hyperboreans in a land, happy as Avilioni .,.
 Where falls not rain, nor hail, nor any
 show.
 Nor ever wind blows loudly"
 South lay the country of the Aethlo. plans who were so good that the Gods loved to visit them.
 Westward lay the Islands of tine Blessed. On top of Olympus the highest mountain of Thessaly dwelt the gods Pleasant surroundings.
 Very beautifully, are told the old stories, the story of Prometheus. how on the top of very high mountain he stood reach ing lip pine branch whose dry needles raught afame at the fire that envelopcd | ina wheels of phohhus'a Qun-rar t,n,,, 4lA blaze burned into the wood of his boush rich with rosin. and SO made the world s first 'lisht-wood-torch." as we Soutnern-