... STAGE HISTORY OF RIP VAN WINKLE. Plays on this marvellous legend, as met forth by Washington Irving, are as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and though in some small points they may differ in essentials they are all very much alike. The history of Rip ...

... his son to fight for the old laud that was for himselfonlya distant mem~ory of daisied meadows and hedges where hie went blackberrying forty or fifty years ago. The old lady with himn must have remembered her own courting days as she saw her stalwart son ...