. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . L_ JOSEPH JEFFERSON. JEFFERSON, Joseph, an American actor andautobiographer, was born at Philadelphia, Feb-ruary 20, 1829. At three years of age he appearedas a child in the play of Pizarro, or the Death ofRolla. His Asa Trenchard, in Our AmericanCousin, brought him repute; his best-known char-acters, however, are Bob Acres and Rip VanWinkle. As an author he is known for his frankand charming A
. The Ridpath library of universal literature : a biographical and bibliographical summary of the world's most eminent authors, including the choicest extracts and masterpieces from their writings ... . L_ JOSEPH JEFFERSON. JEFFERSON, Joseph, an American actor andautobiographer, was born at Philadelphia, Feb-ruary 20, 1829. At three years of age he appearedas a child in the play of Pizarro, or the Death ofRolla. His Asa Trenchard, in Our AmericanCousin, brought him repute; his best-known char-acters, however, are Bob Acres and Rip VanWinkle. As an author he is known for his frankand charming Autobiography, which appeared in1890. In 1895 he published for the first time thewords of Rip Van Winkle. It is not easy for one who knows Jefferson,writes one of his old friends, to write of his workwithout referring to the rare beauty and gentle-ness of his character as a man ; and his book re-calls his personal characteristics at every varied career of the actor and the ripe ex-periences of the man of the world are told withthat frankness and purity of youth which he haspreserved through life. The mirth of Rip VanWinkle and the pathos of Caleb Plummerwill be found side by side in the
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