“Recollections of a Player,” &c., &c.
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It is seldom that a biographic volume brings together more fitly the subject and the chronicler than does this juxtaposition of Joseph Jefferson and Francis Wilson. Men in the same profession, they were still further sympathetic by reason of their love of good books and good pictures, and through their kindly and humorous view of human nature, and in their enjoyment of the oddities of every-day life and character. For many years Mr. Wilson was a hero-worshipper of Joseph Jefferson; as a small boy he rubbed against him in the street, in order, boy-fashion, to feel that he had touched the hem of his garment. When he grew to know the man, he set down from time to time a full record of Jefferson’s charming conversation. During the weeks of the all-star tour he made a further record of the table-talk of Mr. Jefferson when surrounded with that splendid body of actors which included Mrs. Drew, William H. Crane, the Hollands, Julia Marlowe, Nat Goodwin, Fanny Rice, Robert Taber, and Mr. Wilson himself. It was a company to draw out the best of Jefferson’s varied experiences, and the best was set down by Mr. Wilson, and has been reproduced in this delightful volume of reminiscences. Mr. Wilson has written one of those books about the American stage that is sure to have a permanent place; and moreover, by the good taste with which he has written it, and by the excellent literary skill which he has shown, he has produced a volume worthy of very high praise as a literary performance.
A Study of Hypnotism.
Hypnotism and Spiritism
A Critical and Medical Study.
By Dr. GIUSEPPE LAPPONI,
Chief Physician to Their Holinesses Leo XIII. and Pius X.;