“HENRY IRVING.
“There! What do you think of it?”
“It is excellent,” I said, “and most interesting; but I would rather see it in ‘Henry Irving’s Impressions of America’ than in the”——
And here it is accordingly, an intercepted contribution to an English magazine.
“I thought,” he said, “the editor would publish it as a ‘P.S.,’ after the manner of other contributions about the stage.”
“No doubt,” I replied; “but I think we will sandwich it between our chapters on Baltimore and the trip to Chicago.”
XV.
FROM BROOKLYN TO CHICAGO.
“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.