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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
about the sick woman, Miss Cushman's
power took on an unearthly beauty and
sweetness which keenly touched the lis-
tener's heart, often below the source of
tears. Her cry, out of the depths of her
great storm-beaten heart, of infinite long-
ing for the rest of paradise, after her vision
of the " blessed troop," who invited her to
a banquet, —
" Spirits of peace, where are ye? are ye all gone,
And leave me here in wretchedness behind ye ? " —
will be recalled to-day by thousands of
men and women, and at this mere men-
tion the lines will echo and reecho through
the chambers of their memories. Katha-
rine's one flash of indignation at the rude-
ness of a messenger — queenly wrath, for
an instant clearing her voice and lifting
her form — made more effective the rapid
lapse in strength which naturally followed.
Capucius, the gentle envoy of her " royal
nephew," the Emperor Charles V., has
entered with messages of " princely com-
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