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A DRAMATIC CRITIC
the place of critic of the drama for the
Boston Daily Advertiser. M}^ first ser-
vice was rendered when that newspaper
had for its editors two remarkable men,
to whom I can pay at this moment hardly
any other tribute than to mention them
by name. The assistant, George Bryant
Woods, the most precociously brilliant
person I ever knew, died in 1 871, in his
twenty-seventh year j
having won distinc-
tion as a critic of literature and the theatre,
as a special correspondent, as a raconteur
of short stories, and as a writer of leaders
upon nearly all current topics. The editor
in chief, Charles Franklin Dunbar, who
passed away only a few months ago, senior
professor of political economy at Harvard,
and ripe in years and honors, was a man
of great wisdom, force, and acumen, and
the master of a style which, for point,
power, and purity, has been surpassed by
that of scarcely any American journalist
of our day.
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