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I went in and saw 'The Midnight Assassin; or, The Dumb Witness. Next evening was to be given 'The Vampire's Feast; or, The Rifled Tomb. This tragedy was followed by Allingham's play, 'Fortune's Frolick, adapted to the narrow capacities of the company. It was performed in broad Cornish, and interspersed with some rather good and I fancy original songs.
Among the illustrations that have been adduced of the insensibility of the lower organisms, none perhaps is more extraordinary than this: "A crab will continue to eat, and apparently relish, a smaller crab while being itself slowly devoured by a larger one!" p. 384. William Allingham's Diary, p. 226. In 1896, by Messrs. Macmillan.
When seen at the Academy in 1875, Ruskin wrote of it: "It happens curiously that the only drawing of which the memory remains with me as a possession out of the Old Water-Color Exhibition of this year Mrs. Allingham's 'Young Customers' should be not only by an accomplished designer of woodcuts, but itself the illustration of a popular story.
Professor Crawford, of Trinity College, Dublin, says that when walking down Regent Street, London, with William Allingham, then editor of Fraser's Magazine, and a native of this Donegal town, the pair met Charles Dickens, who advanced with beaming countenance, and taking both Allingham's hands in his own, said in a hearty voice: "Well done, Ballyshannon!"
His enthusiasm for books and for the writers of books never faded. "What do we not all owe you," he writes Mr. Fields, "for your edition of De Tocqueville! It is one of the best books of the century. Thanks, too, for Allingham's poems. After Tennyson, he is my favorite among modern British poets."
But when, in September 1827, another English company brought Shakespeare's plays to the Odéon, this contempt for English literature had changed to ardent admiration so quickly had the mind of Paris broadened. Shakespeare had been translated by Guizot, and everyone had read Scott, Cooper, and Byron. The English season was opened by Sheridan's "Rivals," followed by Allingham's "Fortune's Freak."
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