Shadows of the Stage. 



iSaio, Cloth, 75 Cents. 



" The fame of the actor more than that of any 

 other artist is an evanescent one — a 'bubble 

 reputation ' — indeed, and necessarily so from 

 the conditions under which his genius is exer- 

 cised. While the impression it makes is often 

 more vivid and inspiring for the moment than 

 that of the poet and the painter, it vanishes almost 

 with the occasion which gave it birth, and lives 

 only as a tradition in the memory of those to 

 whom it had immediately appealed. ' Shadows 

 they are, and shadows they pursue.' 



" The writer, therefore, who, gifted with insight 

 and a poetic enthusiasm which enables him to 

 discern on the one hand the beauties in a dra- 

 matic work not perceived by the many, and on the 

 other the qualities in the actor which have made 

 him a true interpreter of the poet's thought, at 

 the same time possessing the faculty of revealing 

 to us felicitously the one, and the other is cer- 

 tainly entitled to our grateful recognition. 



" Such a writer is Mr. William Winter, easily 

 the first, — for we know of none other living in 

 this country, or in the England he loves so much, 

 in whose nature the critic's vision is united with 

 that of the poet so harmoniously. ... 



" Over and above all this, there is in these writ- 

 ings the same charm of style, poetic glamour and 

 flavor of personality which distinguish whatever 

 comes to us from Mr. Winter's pen, and which 

 make them unique in our literature." — Hotue 

 Journal, New York. 



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