SIR HENRY IRVING

A RECORD OF OVER TWENTY YEARS AT THE LYCEUM

BY
PERCY FITZGERALD, M.A.
AUTHOR OF
“THE LIFE OF GARRICK,” “THE KEMBLES,” “ART OF THE STAGE,” ETC.

“As in a theatre the eyes of men,

After a well-grac’d actor leaves the stage,

Are idly bent on him that enters next.”

A NEW EDITION, REVISED
WITH AN ADDITIONAL CHAPTER

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS, PICCADILLY
1895

PREFACE.