The magazine of American history with notes and queries . t precariousyears of our national existence, in which he performed the initiatory dutiesof Secretary of State to the infant government ; organizing its foreignaffairs. ^ytZsZ^J^^ft (X^^l-O- [The portrait which graces the front page of the Magazine represents Jay at a later date—whenabout forty years of age—and expresses, perhaps, more of that refinement of intellect and calmserenity of character for which he was distinguished than any other picture extant. It is fromA. B. Durands engraving of Stuart and Trumbulls painting.] i JOHN HOWAR
The magazine of American history with notes and queries . t precariousyears of our national existence, in which he performed the initiatory dutiesof Secretary of State to the infant government ; organizing its foreignaffairs. ^ytZsZ^J^^ft (X^^l-O- [The portrait which graces the front page of the Magazine represents Jay at a later date—whenabout forty years of age—and expresses, perhaps, more of that refinement of intellect and calmserenity of character for which he was distinguished than any other picture extant. It is fromA. B. Durands engraving of Stuart and Trumbulls painting.] i JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, THE ACTOR Of John Howard Payne, the Actor, the world knows but little ; yet inthe early part of the present century he was a prominent figure in theAmerican Theater, not only as a writer of plays, but as himself a our stage he was the first of a long line of Infant Phenomena ; hispopularity in his own countryequaling almost that of the cele-brated Master Betty in England,whose contemporary he was. AlthoughYork, Payneschooling in. a native of New received his early Boston, where hewas distinguished by his effortsin declamation ; his friends andschool-fellows believing him to bea prodigy of eloquence, even be-fore his ambition to excel uponthe stage was fired by the por-traits of the young English Ros-cius in his different characterswhich he saw in the shop win-dows of Boston, and by thestories of Bettys marvelous suc-cess brought to America by everyEnglish mail. With little or no professional training Master Payne, at the age ofseventeen, but looking much younger, made his first bow to the public asan actor, at the Park Theater, New York, on the 24th of February, Forrest, and scores of the young debutants who have followed him,he appeared in Holmes Douglas as Young Norval, that putative son ofthe frugal swain, who for so many years, and in so many theaters on bothsides of the Atlantic, has been described so often as feeding his flocksupon the G
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