: Henry Irving's Impressions of America Narrated in a Series of Sketches Chronicles and Conversations by Hatton Joseph - United States Description and travel; Actors Great Britain Biography; Irving Henry Sir 1838-1905 Travel United States; British United St

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Going to Meet the "Britannic"--The "Blackbird"--Skirmishers of the American Press--The London "Standard's" Message to New York, Boston, and Chicago--"Working" America--"Reportorial" Experiences--Daylight off Staten Island--At Quarantine under the Stars and Stripes--"God Save the Queen!" and "Hail to the Chief!"--Received and "Interviewed"--"Portia on a Trip from the Venetian Seas"--What the Reporters Think and what Irving Says--The Necessity of Applause--An Anecdote of Forrest--Mr. Vanderbilt and the Mirror--Miss Terry and the Reporters--"Tell them I never loved home so well as now"--Landed and Welcomed--Scenes on the Quay--At the Brevoort 39

Union Square, New York--An Enterprising Chronicler--The Lambs--The Newspapers and the New-comers--"Art must Advance with the Times"--"Romeo and Juliet" at the Lyceum--"Character Parts"--No Real Tradition of Shakespearian Acting--"Mannerisms"--The Stage as an Educator--Lafayette Place--A Notable Little Dinner--The Great American Bird, "Not the Eagle, but the Duck"--A Question of "Appropriate Music"--Speculators in Tickets and their Enormous Profits--Middlemen, the Star Theatre, and the Play going Public 65

The Vividness of First Impressions--New York Hotels--On the Elevated Road with "Charlie"--Trotting Horses--Audiences on both Sides of the Atlantic--"A Man knows best what he can do"--"Americanisms," so called--A Satirical Sketch, entitled "Bitten by a Dog"--Louis and the Duke of Stratford-on-Avon--Macready and the Forrest Riots 108

A Stormy Night in New York--Ticket-Speculators at Work--A First-night Audience--Mathias received with Enthusiasm--Behind the Scenes--Lighting the Stage--Returning Thanks--Criticism of the Crowd--John Gilbert's Opinion--Actor and Audience--English Playgoers and Londoners--Laughter and Applause--An Artistic Triumph 123

Rivalries of American Cities--Boston and Philadelphia--The Real and the Picturesque--Miss Terry's Portia--"Three Kinds of Criticism"--First Appearance as Hamlet--Miss Terry's Ophelia--Journalism and the Stage--Critics, Past and Present--Philadelphia and English Cities--A New Style of Newspaper--Bogus Reports and Interviews; an Example of Them--The Clover Club--A Letter from an Eminent American Tragedian--Presented with Forrest's Watch--The Macready Trouble--Hamlet, and an Invitation from Guest to Hosts 187

Rural Scenes on Both Sides of the Atlantic--First Impressions of Railway Travel--The Cars--One of the Largest Theatres in America--The Drama in Boston--Early Struggles to represent Plays in Public--"Moral Lectures"--Boston Criticisms--Shylock, Portia, Hamlet, and Ophelia--Different Readings of Shylock--Dressing-Room Criticism--Shylock considered--A Reminiscence of Tunis--How Shakespeare should be interpreted on the Stage--Two Methods illustrated--Shylock before the Court of Venice--How Actors should be judged 214

Snow and Sleigh Bells--"Brooks of Sheffield"--In the Boston Suburbs--Smokeless Coal--At the Somerset Club--Miss Ellen Terry and the Papyrus--A Ladies' Night--Club Literature--Curious Minutes--"Greeting to Ellen Terry"--St. Botolph--Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles the First--"Good-by and a Merry Christmas" 237

Interviewing in England and America--Rehearsing Richard and Lady Ann--Reminiscences of a Christmas Dinner--A Homely Feast--Joe Robins and Guy Fawkes--He would be an Actor--The Luxury of Warmth--"One Touch of Nature" 254

A Great American Railway Station--Platforms and Waiting-Rooms--A Queer Night--"Snow is as Bad as Fog"--A Farmer who Suggests Mathias in "The Bells"--A Romance of the Hudson--Looking for the "Maryland" and Finding "The Danites"--Fighting a Snow-storm--"A Ministering Angel"--The Publicity of Private Cars--Mysterious Proceedings--Strange Lights--Snowed up--Digging out the Railway Points--A Good Samaritan Locomotive--Trains Ahead of Us, Trains Behind Us--Railway Lights and Bells--"What's Going On?" 264

At Baltimore--Street Scenes--Christmas Wares--Pretty Women in "Rubber Cloaks"--Contrasts--Street Hawkers--Southern Blondes--Furs and Diamonds--Rehearsing under Difficulties--Blacks and Whites--Negro Philosophy--Honest Work--"The Best Company on its Legs I have ever seen"--Our Christmas Supper--"Absent Friends"--Pictures in the Fire and Afterwards--An Intercepted Contribution to Magazine Literature--Correcting a Falsehood--Honesty and Fair Play 285

"Fussy"--The Brooklyn Ferry--Crossing the North River--A Picturesque Crowd--Brooklyn Bridge at Night--Warned against Chicago--Conservatism of American Critics--Dangers of the Road--Railway-Train Bandits--An Early Interviewer--A Reporter's Story--Life on a Private Car--Miss Terry and her "Luck"--American Women 305

First Impressions of Chicago--A Bitter Winter--Great Storms--Thirty Degrees below Zero--On the Shores of Lake Michigan--Street Architecture--Pullman City--Western Journalism--Chicago Criticism--Notable Entertainments--At the Press Club--The Club Life of America--What America has done--Unfair Comparisons between the Great New World and the Older Civilizations of Europe--Mistaking Notoriety for Fame--A Speech of Thanks--Facts, Figures, and Tests of Popularity, Past and to Come 321

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