Excerpt from The "Queen of the Drama!" Mary Anderson: Her Life on and Off the Stage; Together With Select Recitations From All the Great Plays in Which She Has Delighted Two Continents He was then no longer the youth who delighted, at the Winter Garden, the first worthies of New York but he had worn away much of the peculiarities of his father and his father's type whom Edmund Kean had eclipsed just as they had the Kemble tribe. He was, therefore, a glass of fashion which the aspirant had fortunately set before her. She returned home, particularly fired in fancy by Booth's melancholy Dane, and with a determination to figure upon the boards where such an ornament was becomingly enframed. 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.