. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. <-42l^*^. Prominent in Tragedy. Distinguished as a Comedian. MODERN family, two of whom havetrhed luster upon the dramatic pro-fession by
. Hill's album of biography and art : containing portraits and pen-sketches of many persons who have been and are prominent as religionists, military heroes, inventors, financiers, scientists, explorers, writers, physicians, actors, lawyers, musicians, artists, poets, sovereigns, humorists, orators and statesmen, together with chapters relating to history, science, and important work in which prominent people have been engaged at various periods of time. <-42l^*^. Prominent in Tragedy. Distinguished as a Comedian. MODERN family, two of whom havetrhed luster upon the dramatic pro-fession by their efficiency as actors,and one of whom eternally dis-graced himself by becoming theassassin of President Lincoln,April 14, 1865, was the Booths. Junius Brutus Booth, distin-guished as a tragedian of greatability, was born in London, Eng-land, in 1796. Before going uponthe stage, in 1813, he tried his handat seamanship in the navy, at print-ing, at studying law, and at paintingand sculpture. For about two yearshe played in minor theaters in Eng-land and other parts of Europe, andthen, in 1815, made his first appearanceat Covent Garden theater, in there he went into country districtsand performed, and having succeeded inplaying Sir Giles Overreach with dis-tinguished effect, he was recalled toCovent Garden in 1817, where he per-formed Richard III. Edmund Keanwas then playing in London, at anothertheater, the manager of which inducedBooth to leav
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