The bevutis hice to this volume, a hortwait of John Howard Payne as" Hamlet," has been inserted in the unent ed. in the theatre Coffertorio:- TS 176.8 OF JOHN HOWARD PAYNE, THE AMERICAN ROSCIUS: WITH Criticisms on his Acting, IN THE VARIOUS THEATRES OF AMERICA, ENGLAND AND IRELAND. COMPILED FROM AUTHENTIC DOCUMENTS. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN MILLER, 25, BOW-STREET, COVENT GARDEN. ADVERTISEMENT. THE following pages present, perhaps, the only materials which have ever been collected in England for a correct estimate of the American Stage, as to be inferred from the encouragement of national talent, and the style of dramatic criticism in that recent and interesting country. Mr. Payne is, we believe, the only native American to whom they have ever given celebrity: their Drama, like their Literature, having almost exclusively been British. |