. Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters. ordained by Gods decree that those who love must parted be—are true. I feel the blow for Beatrices sake almost as keenly as shemust—and I fear she is almost heart-broken. I would youwere with her. I can write no more just now. . Ever yours, RICHARD MANSFIELD. As he had prognosticated the doom of Nero,—namely, that, being a tragedy, it would be damned,—he might, perhaps, have been expected to meetthe catastrophe with some degree of philosophiccomposure, but he had built a golden hope uponthat play, and the ill-fortune which
. Life and art of Richard Mansfield : with selections from his letters. ordained by Gods decree that those who love must parted be—are true. I feel the blow for Beatrices sake almost as keenly as shemust—and I fear she is almost heart-broken. I would youwere with her. I can write no more just now. . Ever yours, RICHARD MANSFIELD. As he had prognosticated the doom of Nero,—namely, that, being a tragedy, it would be damned,—he might, perhaps, have been expected to meetthe catastrophe with some degree of philosophiccomposure, but he had built a golden hope uponthat play, and the ill-fortune which it encounteredgreatly annoyed him. His impatience was freelyexpressed; sometimes in a way to exacerbate alreadyexistent newspaper animosities. In the winter sea-son of 1891-92, he made a tour, using the oldplays, but, privately inciting and assisting the com-position of new ones. The subjects upon which hischoice then fell were Samuel Warrens fantasticnovel of Ten Thousand a Year and Hawthornessolemn, pathetic, heart-rending romance of TheScarlet Photograph ft?/ PacJi Bros., Xeic York MANSFIELD AXD HIS SOX GEORGE GIBBS MANSFIELD VI. 1892. EARLY in 1892 Mansfields book of music calledOne Evening was published. It contains fourteencompositions, alternately serious and humorous; itprovides, in the hands of a competent performer, acomplete entertainment for a miscellaneous audience,and it is particularly felicitous in playful satire ofmusical conventionalities. Some of its melodies,suggestive of the style of Dr. Arne, are deliciousin their tenderness of feeling and their characteristics of the work are refinement,piquancy, vigor, and grace, and it is strikinglyindicative of poetic fancy and versatile faculty ofexpression. The first theatrical novelty that he furnished tothe public in that season was the drama of TenThousand a Year, written for him, at his sugges-tion and under his advisement, by Miss Emma On board Private Car, Pilgrim,My
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