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ADELAIDE NEILSON
failing health, she died suddenly at the
Chalet du Rond Royal, in the Bois de
Boulogne. A considerable portion of her
estate she bequeathed by will to Admiral
Glyn. She acted frequently in England,
also, during the last eight years of her
life, appearing, in the course of one mem-
orable engagement, in one hundred con-
secutive performances of Julia, in The
Hunchback of Sheridan Knowles.
When Miss Neilson, at the age of twenty-
four, first pla3''ed in this city, her beauty
and charm were on all sides declared to
be of a rare and bewildering sort, and the
public acclaim upon that theme was loud
and sonorous. Her great ability, also, was
obvious. It was easy to see that " the root
of the matter " was in her ; that she pos-
sessed the true plastic quality of the actor,
native histrionic discrimination, and ex-
treme temperamental sensibility. But her
style, at that time, lacked the highest dis-
tinction • her voice, though usually very
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