Recollections of the Stage 



Descriptions of People and Events of the Mimic World. 

 By CLARA MORRIS 



Clara Morris' high fame will still be heightened by the remarkable memoirs that appear 

 in McClure's this year. As an actress she has shown not only temperament and histrionic- 

 power, but a rare mental grasp and phenomenal psychological insight, and the most wonderful 

 thing in her history is that now she should be able to give admirable expression to her rich gifts 

 through literature. Her work is almost alone among reminiscences of the stage, inasmuch as it is 

 so natural, frank, and at bottom so intellectual. The intellectuality is in the unconscious grasp 

 of her strong mind, and the singular emotional responsiveness of the writer, her humor and her 

 svmpathv ( again and again she makes one laugh and cry in the same breath ) are the outcome of 

 both brain and heart. 



She has known the most prominent people connected with the stage since the beginning of 

 her career, and gives us further acquaintance with such people as John Wilkes Booth, Augustin Daly, 

 Lawrence Barrett, Charles Kean and Edwin Booth. The first article will be found in this issue. 



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Illustration for one of Josephine Dodge Daskani 's Child Stories 

 Drawn by Charles L. llinton. 



Some People of Chicago 



By EDITH WYATT 



Miss Wyatt is one of the most brilliant of the young writers McClure's has introduced to 

 the public. Stories of hers — all dealing with related classes of Chicago people — will continue for 

 some time to come. Miss Wyatt has a fund of dry humor and satire, and an originality that takes 

 her completelv out of the beaten track. Her Chicagoans have appeared in no other fiction, and 

 are less typical of their city than of the wide American world where we have all known their like. 

 Her grasp of character is the result of a svmpathv that exercises itself in these stories on some kinds 

 of people that are rarely viewed both svmpatheticallv and honestly. Her truthfulness is delicious, 

 and *he result of it and her fairness is a widening of the sense of human fellowship. 



