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[Footnote 3: A malicious anecdote to a similar effect was current in the early days of Sir Henry Irving's career.

Miller shortly after became bankrupt, the sale of the book (of which one thousand had been printed) was interrupted, and Irving's hopes of profit were dashed to the ground.

The wonder was that Washington Irving's works so long escaped the same doom.

" Few circumstances shew the prevailing and preposterous rage for novelty in a more striking point of view, than the success of Mr. Irving's oratory.

It was vexatious that routine had omitted from the list of speakers Mr. Everett, who was at Irving's side; but, as diplomate, the Prussian and Russian had precedence, and as American author, Irving, of course, was the representative man.

A few more remarks indicated still more deferential interest on the part of the man of tape; and then another question, about Mr. Irving's "latest work," revealed the pleasant fact that he was addressed as the famous Edward Irving, of the Scotch Church,the man of divers tongues.

Irving's first literary composition seems to have been a play written when he was thirteen.

Irving's first journey was made the very year after he left school.

In 1813 Henry Brevoort, one of Irving's most intimate boyhood friends, had presented to Scott a copy of the "History of New York," and Scott had written a letter of thanks in which he said, "I have been employed these few evenings in reading the annals of Diedrich Knickerbocker aloud to Mrs. S, and two ladies who are our guests, and our sides have been absolutely sore with laughing.

Irving's friends in the United States had long wished to give him some honor or distinction.

Fortunately, I had read Irving's beautiful paper in the "Sketch-Book," and knew "The Last of the Mohicans" by heart; and putting together, as well as I could, the ideas of Indian life I had gained from these sources, I accomplished my task to the entire satisfaction of my interrogators.

A SUPPLEMENT of UNIQUE EXTRACTS from NEW BOOKS of the last Six Weeks: with TWO ENGRAVINGS Illustrating Washington Irving's NEW SKETCH BOOK.

In Washington Irving's Sketch Book.

IRVING'S LIFE OF GOLDSMITH.

Judged by this test, I have no hesitation in regarding Mr. Irving's King Lear as the finest creation of his genius.

Irving's subtlest power comes into effective play.

Meanwhile, we went to see Irving's King Philip.

And what was Henry Irving's attitude.

Lady Pollock, who first brought me to Henry Irving's notice as a possible leading lady, thought my Portia better at the Lyceum than it had been at the Prince of Wales's.

" Henry Irving's Shylock was generally conceded to be full of talent and reality, but some of his critics could not resist saying that this was not the Jew that Shakespeare drew!

He never left Henry Irving's management, and was with him in that last performance of "Becket" at Bradford on October 13, 1905the last performance ever given by Henry Irving who died the same night.

I know that Henry Irving's production of "Romeo and Juliet" has been attributed to my ambition.

We were at the time looking at Henry Irving's death-mask which Mr. Frampton had taken, and a replica of which he had just given me.

; in "New Men and Old Acres," 124, 146, 152; and the Bancrofts, 131; as Mabel Vane, 131; as Blanche Hayes in "Ours," 132; goes to see Irving act, 133, 134, 137; and Irving's Hamlet, 136 et sqq.

[Note 1: An interesting account of this expedition may be read in Washington Irving's Companions of Columbus; see also Navarrete, op.

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