. The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries . all characters, that is,which rest on the basis of spiritualized intellect, or onthat of sensibility to fragile loveliness, the joy that isunattainable, the glory that fades, and the beauty thatperishes—he is easily peerless. William Winter : Edwin Booth in Twelve Dra-matic Characters,//. 49-51. MR. AND MRS. DION BOUCICAULT. (Agnes Robertson.) Prolific Boucicault! what verse may scan The merits of this many-sided man ? A stage upholsterer of old renown, Is what an enemy would write him down. But let the enemy remember still How much we
. The life and art of Edwin Booth and his contemporaries . all characters, that is,which rest on the basis of spiritualized intellect, or onthat of sensibility to fragile loveliness, the joy that isunattainable, the glory that fades, and the beauty thatperishes—he is easily peerless. William Winter : Edwin Booth in Twelve Dra-matic Characters,//. 49-51. MR. AND MRS. DION BOUCICAULT. (Agnes Robertson.) Prolific Boucicault! what verse may scan The merits of this many-sided man ? A stage upholsterer of old renown, Is what an enemy would write him down. But let the enemy remember still How much we owe to Dions cunning quill. What tho in many of his plays, perchance. There may be hints of foraging in France ! Let us be mindful of the genius shown In those as well as others all his own. There is a land the playwright has made sweet, And found a laurel in the bog and peat. Not yet have audiences joy out-worn To see the Shaughraun and the Colleen Bawn And Dazzle has retired from the scene, While enter Conn and Myles-na-Coppaleen. William L. DION BOUCICAULT. MR. AND MRS. DION BOUCICAULT. Mr. Dion Boucicault, one of the most prolific andpopular of English playwrights and an actor of muchhumorous force, was born in Dublin, Dec. 26, 1841, when he was only nineteen years old, he sawhis comedy, London Assurance, brought out atCovent Garden ; and he has produced two, three,four or more plays in every one of the forty-five yearswhich have elapsed since this first and great is not the place, nor have I space, to call theroll of Mr. Boucicaults countless plays, original andadapted ; suffice it here to say that of his earlierpieces a few of the best remembered are the IrishHeiress (1842), Old Heads and Young Hearts(1844), and the Vampire (1852), in which the au-thor made his first appearance as an actor (June 14,1852, Princesss Theatre, London). The next yearhe sailed for America with his wife, Miss AgnesRobertson, one of the little group of very clevery
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