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' our NEAR XI Charlotte Cushman the time when Mr. Mathews made his last visit to our country Miss Charlotte Cushman was ap- proaching the close of her great profes- sional career, which had been broken by many withdrawals and returns, and marked by more misuses of the word " final " than were ever in the history of the world charged against any other artist. I saw her in her assumptions of Meg Merrilies, Lady Macbeth, and Queen Katharine, and in some of her less impor- tant characters. I thought her then, and still think her, the only actress native to soil to whom the adjective " great can be fitly applied. As I remember her, she was a woman of middle age, gaunt of [ 82 ] "
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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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