Chapter V: Part 5

Collins, John, 101

Colman, Geo. (the Younger), 9, 131, 167

"Comedy of Errors," 111

"Comfortable Lodgings," 116

Cooke's Circus Building, Phila., 24

Cooke, Geo. Fred., 126

"Cork Leg," the, song, 12

Covent Garden Theatre, 166

"Crimson Crimes," 116

"Critic," the, 113, 163

"Cupid," 14

"Cure for the Heartache," a, 69, 114

Curwen, Henry, 17, note

Cushman, Charlotte, 24, 91, 97

Cushman, Susan, 24

Daly, Augustin, 132

Daly's Theatre, 38

Dance, Chas., 65

"Dan Keyser de Bassoon," 36

"David Copperfield," 61, 62, 74, 88, 93, 113, 160

Davidge, Wm., 20, 21

Dawson, Mr., 38

"Deaf as a Post," 11, 14, 116

"Delicate Ground," 65

Devlin, Mary, 45, 46, 47

Dickens, Charles, 62, 63, 73, 122, 149, 152, 161, 162

"Dombey and Son," extended mention, 56, 60, 62, 63,
88, 93, 112, 149, 152, 160

Don, Sir Wm., 98

Doran, Dr., 7, note

"Duel in the Dark," a, 116

"Dutch Governor," the, 112, 163, 168

Dyott, Jno., 45, 71;
extended mention, 76, 77, 167, 169

Edinburgh, Scotland, 127

"Education," 115

"Ellen Wareham," 7, 8, 115

Elliot, C. L., painter, incident, 179, 180

Elliston, R. W., 3, 11

Elphinstone, Miss, 10

Emerson, R. W., 69

"Every Man in His Humor," 75, 115

"Evil Genius," 112

"False Pretences," 115

"Family Jars," 94, 115

Farren, Wm., 85, 159

"Fascination," 115

"First Night," the, 49

Fisher, Chas., 45, 55, 70, 76;
extended mention, 78-82, 171

Florence, Mrs. W. J., 45, 46, 47

Florence, W. J., 92

Ford's Theatre, Boston, 37

Forrest, Edwin, 38, 51, note

"Forty Winks," 23, 111

"Fox Hunt," the, 98, 115

Francis, Jno. W., 126

"French Spy," the, 114

"Friend Waggles," 114

Front Street Theatre, Baltimore, 26

"Genevieve," 115

George IV. (king), 5

Gilbert, Mrs., 38, 97

Gilbert, John, 55

"Giralda," 117

Glen Gove, L. I., 179

Glover, Mrs., 7, note

"Good Night's Rest," a, 113

"Great Tragic Revival," a, 115

"Gretna Green," 114

"Guy Mannering," 113

Hackett, James, 175

Hamblin, Thos., 97

Hamilton, Canada, 43, 88, 103

"Hamlet," 117

"Hamlet Travestie," 116

"Happiest Day of my Life," the, 94, 113, 140

"Haunted Man," the, 114

Haymarket Theatre, London, 6, 10

"Hazel Kirke," 132

Hazlitt, Wm., 125, 164

"Heart of Gold," 115

"Heir-at-Law," 13, 82, 87, 112

"Helping Hands," 115

"Henry IV.," 175

"High Life Below Stairs," 113

Hoey, Mrs. (see Mrs. Russell)

Hoey, John, 46

Holland, Geo., 45, 49, 85

Holland House, 129

Holman, Geo., 45, 71, 85

Holmes, O. W., 93

"Home," 132

"Honeymoon," the, 74, 113, 163

Hood, Thos., 41, 130

Hough, Mrs., 45

"How to Die for Love," 15

"How to Make Home Happy," 94, 117

Hughes, Hon. Chas., 88

Hughes, Mrs., 45, 51;
extended mention, 87, 90, 102, 103, 139, 160, 162, 167, 169

"Hunchback," the, 74

Hunt, H., 38

Hunt, Mrs., 20

Hutton, Lawrence, preface;
mention, 35, 36, 62

"Hypocrite," the, 13, 116

"Ill Playing with Edged Tools," 'Tis, 115

"Innkeeper's Daughter," the, 112

Inman, Henry, painter, 9

"Invisible Prince," the, 116

Ireland, Jos. N., preface;
mention, 28, 37, 39, 42, 101, 102, 103, 111, 151, note

"Irish Dragoon," the, 36

"Janet Pride," 116

Jefferson, Jos. (1st), 11

Jefferson, Jos. (3d), 92, 101, 132, 142, 164

"John Bull," 59, 69, 77, 112, 163

"John Jones," 12, 14, 22, 110, 117

"John of Paris," 15

Johnston, T. B., 45;
extended mention, 61, 73, 92, 160, 167

Jonson, Ben, 75, 76

Jordan, Geo., 45, 71;
extended mention, 74, 75, 97

Kean, Edmund, 6, 7, note, 142

Kemble, J. P., 141

Kent, England, 5

"Kill and Cure," 23, 114

"King's Gardener," the, 114

"Kiss in the Dark," a, 113

Knowles, J. Sheridan, 10

"Ladies' Man," the, 12, 14, 116

"Lady of Lyons," the, 114

"Lancers," the, 115

"Last Man," the, 52

"Laughing Hyena," the, 112

"Laugh When You Can," 98, 115

Laura Keene's Theatre, 101

"Leap Year," 36, 112

"Led Astray," 132

"Lend Me Five Shillings," 116

Leonard and Church Sts. Theatre, 24

Lester, J. W. (see Lester Wallack)

Lewis, W. T., 166

Library, Mr. Burton's, 181 _et seq._

"Life Among the Players," 114

List of Characters, 111-117

Liston, J., 6, 11, 41, 125, 144, 168

"Little Toddlekins," 84

"Loan of a Lover," 113

London, England, 3, 5, 9, 10, 11, 17, note, 41

"London Assurance," 113

Longfellow, H. W., 124

"Lottery Ticket," the, 5, 8, note, 9, 14, 113

"Love Chase," the, 113

"Love in a Village," 114

"Love in Humble Life," 114

"Love in a Maze," 116

"Lucia di Lammermoor," 33

"Lucy Did Sham Amour," 36

"Macbeth," 117

"Macbeth Travestie," 114

Macready, W. C., 37

"Maidens, Beware," 36

Malvina, Miss (see Mrs. W. J. Florence)

"Man of Many Friends," 116

"Married an Actress," 115

"Married by Force," 115

"Married Life," 13, 113

"Masks and Faces," 81, 112, 163

Mathews, Chas. (elder), 3

Mathews, Chas. (younger), 45, 46, 84, 131

Maywood & Co. (managers), 9, 13

Mechanics Hall, Hamilton, Canada, 110

"Merchant of Venice," the, 13, 98, 112

"Merry Wives of Windsor," the, 77, 84, 95, 111, 175

Metropolitan Theatre (see Burton's New Theatre)

"Midnight Watch," the, 114

"Midsummer-Night's Dream," a, 75, 76, 80, 95;
extended mention, 96, 112, 171

"Miller's Maid," the, 83

"Mind Your Own Business," 117

Mississippi River, 20

Mitchell, Maggie, 97

"Money," 113, 163

"Mormons," the, 115

Morton, J. M., 131

"Mrs. Bunbury's Spoons," 117

"Much Ado About Nothing," 13, 114

"Mummy," the, 14, 112;
extended mention, 134 _et seq._

Munden, J. W., 11, 54

"My Awful Dad," 67

"My Fellow Clerk," 116

"My Wife and Umbrella," 115

"Naiad Queen," the, 24, 25, 113

Napoleon, town, 20, 21, 22

National Theatre, Leonard St., N. Y., 22, 23

National Theatre, Phila. (formerly Cooke's Circus), 24

"Nature's Nobleman," 114, 163;
extended mention, 168 _et seq._

Neilson, Adelaide, 80

"New Way to Pay Old Debts," a, 116

New York, 3, 11, note, 22, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29, 33, 35, 37, 38, 39,
42, 43, 47, 53, 55, 63, 67, 71, 88, 91, 98, 101, 103, 148, 152, 179

"New York in Slices," 36

Niblo's Garden, 23, 99, 103

"Nice Young Man," a, 115

"Nicholas Nickleby," 83, 85, 93, 113

Norton, W. H., 45, 71, 85;
correspondence with Burton, 85, note

Norwich, England, 5

"No Song No Supper," 14

"Not So Bad As We Seem," 117

"Now-a-days," 114

"Old Guard," the, 49

"Old Heads and Young Hearts," 115

"Oliver Twist" (play), 93, 113, 160, 161

Olympic Theatre, London, 41, 85

Olympic Theatre, N. Y., 38, 97

"One-Hundred-Pound Note," 116

"Ours," 132

"Our Set," 115

Palmo, Ferdinand, 33

Palmo's Opera-House, 27, 33

Pardey, H. O., 168

"Paris and London," 49, 113, 163

Park Theatre, 23, 25, 37, 38, 39

Parsloe, C., Jr., 45, 85, 86

Parsons, Thos. Wm., poem of, 47, 48

"Patrician and Parvenu," 23, 117

"Paul Pry," 50, 72, 94, 113;
extended mention, 144 _et seq._

Pavilion Theatre, London, 6, 9

"Peep from the Parlor Windows," 114

Pelham, Miss, 10

Perry, H. A., 98

Phelps, H. B., preface, 89

Philadelphia, 9, 10, 11, 12, 24, 26, 27, 28, 29, 34, 35, 37

"Pickwickians," the, 94, 113

Placide, Henry, 24, 38, 45;
extended mention, 48 _et seq._, 51, note, 92, 111, 147, 167

Placide, Thomas, 24

"Player's Plot," 115

"Pleasant Neighbors," 114

"Ploughman Turned Lord," a, 83

"Pocahontas; or, The Gentle Savage," 64

Poe, E. A., 16, 19

Poole, John, 144

"Poor Gentleman," the, 9, 13, 53, 72, 73, 77, 82, 87, 111, 162, 166

"Poor Pillicoddy," 112

"Poor Scholar," the, 115

Povey, Jno., 38

Power, Tyrone, 14

"Pride Must Have a Fall," 115

"Prince's Frolic," the, 114

Providence Theatre, 24

"Raising the Wind," 36, 116

Raymond, J. T., 92, 132, 142

Raymond, Miss, 45

Raymond, O. B., 61

Rea, Mrs., 45

Recollections of Burton's acting, 121-176

Reeve, John, 14

"Rent Day," the, 114

"Review," the, 113

Richings, Peter, 23, 38

"Rip Van Winkle," 132

"Rivals," the, 9, 10, 13, 87, 99, 112, 162

"Road to Ruin," the, 13, 51, 54, 72, 74, 88, 112, 162, 165

"Robert Macaire," 112

Robertson, Agnes, 45, 46, 47, 90, 98

Robertson, T. W., 132

Robson, Stuart, 92

"Rosedale," 132

Rowe, Fawcett, 92

Russell, Mrs. (_née_ Shaw; Mrs. Hoey), 45, 46;
extended mention, 62, 63, note

Sandy Hill, N. Y., 90

Sartain, J., engraver, 9

"School," 132

"School for Grown Children," 115

"School for Scandal," the, 13;
cast of, 37, 113, 132, 163

"School for Tigers," a, 47, 73

"School of Reform," the, 82

"Secrets Worth Knowing," 114

"Self," 112

"Serious Family," the, 86, 94, 98, 112;
extended mention, 152 _et seq._;
incident, 153;
story, 155, 156

Setchell, D., 45, 101

Shakespeare, 29, 78, 96, 97, 100, 122, 123, 134, 172, 179, 180, 181, 182

Shaw, Miss (see Mrs. Russell)

Shaw, Mrs., 38

Sheridan, R. B., 9, 64, 164

"She Stoops to Conquer," 13, 112, 132, 162

"Siamese Twins," the, 140

"Simpson & Co.," 113

Simpson, Edmund, 37

Skerrett, Mrs., 45

"Sketches in India," 14, 113

"Slasher and Crasher," 112

"Slave Actress," the, 115

Smith, Sydney, 129

"Socialism," 114

"Soldier's Daughter," the, 11, 94, 97, 116

Sophocles, 22

Sothern, E. A., 132, 142

Southwick, S., 90

"Spectre Bridegroom," the, 116

"Speed the Plough," 13

"Sphinx," the, 114

"Spitfire," the, 116

"Spring and Autumn," 23, 116

"Stag Hall," 115

"State Secrets," 112

"St. Cupid," 117

"Still Waters Run Deep," 75, 113

Stone, H. D., preface, 51, note

St. Paul's School, 3

"Stranger," the, 113

"Such As It Is," 114

Sussex, England, 5

"Sweethearts and Wives," 13, 23, 112

"Take That Girl Away," 112

Taylor, Mary, 38, 45, 60, 66;
extended mention, 91, 98, 169

"Tempest," the, 75, 81, 95, 112, 175

"Temptation," 114

Tennyson, Lord, 97

"That Blessed Baby," 140

Theatres:
American, Phila., 20
Arch Street, Phila., 9, 13, 26
Astor Place Opera-House, 97
Boston, 102
Broadway, 38, 67, note
Brougham's Lyceum, N. Y., 60.
Burton's, Chambers St., 27, 29, 34, 36, 39, 40, 42, 44, 47,
56, 63, 74, 85, 88, 93, 97, 99, 149, 168, 169, 172, 175
Burton's New (Metropolitan), 88, 99, 100, 101, 102
Castle Garden, 98
Chatham, N. Y., 97
Chatham Garden, N. Y., 53
Chestnut Street, Phila., 13, 15, 26
Cooke's Circus, Phila., 24
Covent Garden, London, 166
Ford's, Boston, 37
Front St., Baltimore, 26
Haymarket, London, 6
Laura Keene's, 101
Leonard and Church Sts., N. Y., 24
Mechanics' Hall, Hamilton, Canada, 110
National, Leonard St., N. Y., 22, 23
National, Phila., 24
Niblo's Garden, 23, 99, 103
Olympic, London, 85
Olympic, N. Y., 38, 97
Palmo's Opera-House, 27, 33
Park, N. Y., 23, 25, 37, 38, 39
Pavilion, London, 6
Providence, 24
Tripler Hall, N. Y., 99
Union Square, N. Y., 132
Wallack's Lyceum, 64, 70
Wallack's, 54, 132
Washington, 26

"The Cork Leg," song, 12

Thompson, L. S., 45;
extended mention, 82-84

"Three and Deuce," 15

"Tom Noddy's Secret," 112

"Toodles," the, 94, 112, 152;
extended mention, 156

"To Parents and Guardians," 49, 113

Toronto, Canada, 103

Tripler Hall, N. Y., 99

"Turning the Tables," 116, 140

"Turnpike Gate," the, 116

"Twelfth Night," 49, 77, 78, 95, 112, 174

"Twice Killed," 114

"Two Bonnycastles," the, 112

"Two Buzzards," the, 116

"Two Orphans," the, 132

Union Square Theatre, 132

United States Bank, 24

"Upper Ten and Lower Twenty," 116

"Used Up," 67, note.

Van Buren, Martin, President, 20

"Vanity Fair," 117

"Venice Preserved," 15

"Vicar of Wakefield," the, 114

Walcot, C. M., 38, 64

Walcott, Mrs., 97

Wallack, Fanny, 45, 161

Wallack, J. W. (elder), 14, 15, 16, 22, 23, 25, 46

Wallack, Lester, 45, 51;
extended mention, 65 _et seq._, 67, note, 72, 74, 75, 78, 92, 175

Wallack's Lyceum, 64, 70

Wallack's Theatre, 54, 132

"Wall Street," 115

"Wandering Minstrel," the, 112, 133, 139

"Wanted, 1,000 Milliners," 113;
extended mention, 137 _et seq._

Washington Theatre, 26

"Water Party," the, 23, 114

Watson, Miss, 15

Watson, Mrs., 15

"Way to Get Married," the, 68

Wemyss, F. C., preface, 15, 25, 33, 125

"West End," the, 68

Weston, Lizzie, 45, 46, 68, 169

"Wheel of Fortune," the, 77

White, R. W., 80, 172

"Widow Machree," song, 90

"Widow's Victim," the, 112

"Wild Oats," 67, 117, 162

Williams, Mrs. Barney, 47

Windsor, England, 5

Winstanley, Mrs., 38

"Winter's Tale," 95, 98, 175

Winter, Wm., 28

"Witch Wife," the, 115

Wood, Wm. B., preface, 14, 34

Woodworth, Sam'l, poet, 22

Wynne, James, M.D., 181

"Young Actress," the, 47, 90

Young, Mrs. (see Mrs. Hughes)

"Young Quaker," the, 115

"You're Another," 116

"Youthful Days of Louis XIV.," 117

Transcriber's Note

Variations in spelling, punctuation and hyphenation have been retained except in obvious cases of typographical errors.

Italics are shown thus _italic_.