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WILLIAM WARREN
voiced organ. There seemed to be abso-
lutely no limit to his sympathy, practically
none to his adaptability as an actor. Pilli-
coddy and Touchstone, Jacques Fauvel
and Polonius, John Duck and M. Tourbillon,
Mr. Ledger and Michonnet, Tem-
pleton Jitt and Jesse Rural, Sir Harcourt
Courtly and Tony Lumpkin, Triplet and
Dogberry, Goldfinch and -Sir Peter Teazle,
— that is the list of Mr. Warren's contrast-
ing impersonations which I took for one of
my texts in The Atlantic Monthly a dozen
years ago. Fifty other pairs would have
served about equally well, and the thought
of any half a dozen of the coupled impersonations
will avail to move my memory
to glorious laughter, or to thrill it with the
delicious pain of acute sympathy, or to
enchant it with the recognition of consum-
mate beauty. It is impossible to estimate
how much such an actor has added to the
pure pleasure of the community, or how
potent a factor he was as an educator of
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