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' our<br />

NEAR<br />

XI<br />

Charlotte Cushman<br />

the time when Mr. Mathews<br />

made his last visit to our country<br />

Miss Charlotte Cushman was ap-<br />

proaching the close of her great profes-<br />

sional career, which had been broken<br />

by many withdrawals and returns, and<br />

marked by more misuses of the word<br />

" final " than were ever in the history of<br />

the world charged against any other artist.<br />

I saw her in her assumptions of Meg<br />

Merrilies, Lady Macbeth, and Queen<br />

Katharine, and in some of her less impor-<br />

tant characters. I thought her then, and<br />

still think her, the only actress native to<br />

soil to whom the adjective " great<br />

can be fitly applied. As I remember her,<br />

she was a woman of middle age, gaunt of<br />

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