... a spirited and earnest performance. Master Grattan plays the Boy-Falstafi's Boy -with great vivacity and intelligence. He is a lad of much promise, and may do excellent work as an actor. Mr. Ryder plays John Bates, the soldier, with a straightforward ...

... of the American revolt, when Grattan carried his famous resolutions in favour of Irish indepen- dence. The question after this time was frequently debated in the English Parliament, when the splendid eloquence of Grattan always secured a hearing for his ...

... again. Following the comical suggestion of Jules Verne in Dr. Ox, Miss Helen Mathers makes the family continue by marrying John Sieveking's second wife to Mark Trevelyan, and the latter, after her death, to another lady, who finally marries Mr. Titmarsh ...