He had been to the Opera, and knew the merits of the principal actors, preferring Mr. Kean to Mr. Kemble.

His contemporaries, Washington Irving, James K. Paulding, and Governeur Kemble, had their amusements and frolics, in which he took no part.

According to Mr. Kemble, the elder men of the time held up to the youths the example of young Verplanck, so studious and accomplished, and so ready with every kind of knowledge, and withal of such faultless habits, as a model for their imitation.

Kemble and Mrs. Siddons.

Kemble and Mrs. Siddons.

At Covent Garden there is the best acting in the world; Mr. Kemble is the first tragic actor now in England; Cook was a rival and excelled him in some characters.

KEMBLE, FRANCES ANNE.

Nehemiah H. Earle John Fine Nathaniel Jones Governeur Kemble James de la Montayne John H. Prentiss Theron R. Strong PENNSYLVANIA.

The present Mr. Siddons was originally a barber, but having an inclination for the stage, he joined the itinerant company of Mr. Kemble, and married one of his daughters, who afterwards proved the heroine of the stage.

KEMBLE (John) took opium.

[Illustration] J Kemble took opium.

[Illustration] This was one of the characters of Robert Wilks (1670-1732), and also of Charles Kemble (1774-1854).

He was probably the Kemble of his day, for his biographers tell us such was his celebrity, that he drew crowds of spectators after him wherever he performed; so that possessing some private patrimony, with a careful and provident disposition, he soon became master of an establishment of his ownand this was the Fortune.

She added that before the play began, while the guests were assembling, the butler announced 'Mr. Negus!'upon which Lamb exclaimed, 'Hand him round!'" Lamb refers in the opening lines to Edmund Kean and John Philip Kemble.

" The play must have been baptised as "Pride's Cure" soon after Hallowe'en, for at Christmas it was submitted under that title to Kemble, and about the same time (December 28, 1799) we find Lamb defending the title (with the vehemence and subtlety of a doubter, as I read) against the adverse criticism of Manning and Mrs. Charles Lloyd.

Things become clearer when we reach November 3, 1800, on which day Lamb thus addressed Manning (I quote verbatim from the original letter):"At last I have written to Kemble to know the event of my play, which was presented last Christmas.

" It will be observed that that second copy sent to Kemble must have differed essentially from the one sent to Manning, for the latter includes the witch story, and retains in its original place the soliloquy about England getting drunk.

Clearly it was subsequent, but probably not long subsequent, to Kemble's rejection of the play, which took place soon after All Souls' Day, for Kemble must have made up his mind within half an hour of taking up the manuscript.

Clearly it was subsequent, but probably not long subsequent, to Kemble's rejection of the play, which took place soon after All Souls' Day, for Kemble must have made up his mind within half an hour of taking up the manuscript.

I also send you Kemble's two letters, and the prompter's courteous epistle, with a curious critique on 'Pride's Cure' by a young Physician from EDINBORO', who modestly suggests quite another kind of plot.

The potentate of the Haymarket was probably less sublimely courteous in his rejection than Kemble.

STOKES, FRANCES KEMBLE WISTER.

Frances Kemble Wister Stokes (C); 13Feb56; R165008.

by E. W. Kemble & a new introd.

The oak screen across the S.E. aisle is in memory of a former rector (Rev. C. Kemble) who did much to restore the Abbey.