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then starts out for a tour of DBond Street, Oxford Street, Regent Street, and the neigh- bourhood, rcturning in three or four hours’ TFussic once belonged to poor Iered Archer, and was given to Mr. Irving by Miss

time.

Terry. DNiss Terry wias at Newmarket one day going over some stables, and [red Archer gave her 2 little pup, which was appropriately christened Fussic. Mr. Irving assured me that if he went to America and forgot to take the [little terrier, the latter would swim the Atlantic after him! [Fussic specially sat to Miss Lillen Terry

for the photo. reproduced. He was “ caught in the act of carrying his master’s walking-

stick.

At the far end of the study is o great glass, which reaches from the iloor to the ceiling

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Against this lean a number of swords, all suggestive of interest, and many walkimn- sticks., The sword dmur d Kcean wore as Nwlhard 177 s 1 a crimson velvet scah- bard : another 1s David Grarrick’s sword ; and here s the one used by My Trving as Llhonletd tor 200 nights, the crape with which it s covered being alimost tatters. There are a score ol walking-sticks. Onc ol them belonged to the late i‘rank Marshall, o cance he carried for years.

Then Mr. Irving sat down m his char o chaar of mcomparable comfort. We spent the afternoon together in “looking back.” Tlespoke with carnestness about every thing, and with gentleness about cvervbody, Fl o scemed to e to o always (hink bLefore he spoke. [Tis work has long ago told of the scholarly artist which he s, but vou hegin to understan:l it better after you have met the man.

One would like to write much about his bril- liant carcer, a hife which he has used to elevate the profession, of which heis the head, into the plice it now occupics m the estimation of the Mr. Trving lives, and has lived, for

his art 1t will surely live after him, suaf- fce 1t now to talk

about the many pleasant meidents of a wellspent day — which only ended

when T osaad @ good- bye” to him at the theatre late at vizht —and with them something ol the work he has done. John Henry brod- ribb was bhorn o at Kemton, near Glas- tonbury, on I-ehruary

Oth, 1838, Although Irving was adoptedas his o de thédadre, it is now his lecal name, he

having had letters patent granted to hime for

this purpose. e passed the carly years of his

Loyhood i Cornwall,

At cleven years of age