Excerpt from Cigarette Papers for After-Dinner Smoking Bancroft, whose return to the stage for that perform ance was a notable incident of a very interesting season. Mrs. Alfred Mellon was the Countess de St. Valerie, and John Billington was her son. In the Lyceum revival Miss Ellen Terry played Mrs. Mellon's part, and her son the young Count, which gave great actuality to the scenes in which they appeared. Miss Terry's supreme charm as an actress, apart from her intellectuality and artistic appreciation, is her womanliness, her sympathetic realisation Of a pathetic incident. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.