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III.

MEMORIALS.

“Vitæ bene actæ jucundissima est recordatio.”

CICERO.

III.

MEMORIALS.

SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT "THE PLAYERS."

THAT face which no man ever saw

And from his memory banished quite,
With eyes in which are Hamlet's awe
And Cardinal Richelieu's subtle light,
Looks from this frame. A master's hand
Has set the master-player here,

In the fair temple that he planned

Not for himself. To us most dear

This image of him! "It was thus

He looked; such pallor touched his cheek;
With that same grace he greeted us

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Nay 'tis the man, could it but speak!"
Sad words that shall be said some day-
Far fall the day! O cruel Time,
Whose breath sweeps mortal things away,
Spare long this image of his prime,
That others standing in the place,
Where, save as ghosts, we come no more,
May know what sweet majestic face

The gentle Prince of Players wore !

THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH.

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THE BOOTH FAMILY.

RICHARD BOOTH

MISS GAME

1. JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH 2. ALGERNON SIDNEY BOOTH 3. JANE BOOTH

RICHARD BOOTH was the son of Elizabeth Wilkes, cousin to John Wilkes, “the agitator" (1727-1797). Richard Booth, an ardent republican, followed his son Junius to America, in 1822, and died on December 29, 1839, aged 76. On the stone that marks his grave, in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, the following words are cut, beneath a cross: "Ex vita, ita descedo, tamquam ex hospito, in fervam Reguum in elytissimi Ducis illiæ ire ad Astra." Richard Booth's wife, whose maiden name was Game, died, in England, at the birth of her daughter, Jane. Of ALGERNON SIDNEY BOOTн I have no record.

JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH January 18, 1821. MARY ANN HOLMES

JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH, JR.,

ROSALIE ANN BOOTH,

HENRY BYRON BOOTH,

MARY ANN BOOTH,

FREDERICK BOOTH,

ELIZABETH BOOTH,

EDWIN THOMAS BOOTH,

ASIA SIDNEY BOOTH (Mrs. J. S. Clarke),

JOHN WILKES BOOTH,

JOSEPH ADRIAN BOOTH.

Henry, Mary, Frederick, and Elizabeth died young. Henry's death occurred in 1837, and he was buried at Pentonville, London. Rosalie died, unmarried, in 1889, aged 65. Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., was twice married, and several of his children survive. John Wilkes Booth, who shot President Lincoln, was

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