Excerpt from Henry Irving G's professional career upon the new-yorh stage and a Study of his Acting. The shetches that compose it and that are now brought together in a con densed and carefully revised form were written by me in the New Yorh Tribune in the performance of a liter ary duty, which also was a pleasure. The motive that firomfited them was my wish to form and suitably to express a thoughfiul and useful estimate of the art of a great and famous actor, whose advent in America would marh an efioch in the history of our stage and be attended with imjbortant and incessant consequences. This object might have been, by other hands, more ably fiursued and more thoroughly accomplished; but at least it has been sought with careful diligence and active sympathy. The Record is accurate: the Study is earnest: and although the manner of both be some what desultory 1 yet venture to indulge the hope that this booh will be accepted as a serviceable addition to the dramatic chronicle of our time, and as a well - meant and well-deserved tribute to an extraordinary man. The chapter on the Influence of the Stage was written by me in the North American Review, and it is introduced here as, fierhaps, an appropriate statement of the ranh and power of the institution to which this actor has given such faithful, honourable, and beneficent service. 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.