he Italian. Richard Le
Gallienne is infinitely superior to Hunt; Lowell and Gilder beyond
the lesser poets,--but all fade before the master. They treat of the
vision of Hell, with its whirling wind; of the two in close embrace;
there is the kiss that ends the reading of a self-same love; there is
the flash of a dagger that joins them eternally in death. These are
the themes for the songs. The artists have done with brush and pencil,
what the poets have tried in sonnets and verse. But it is Dante who
dominates them everyone.

To me, after tracing in part the development of this Italian tragedy,
there remains the charm of Dante's simplicity, and were one to ask,
who, among the moderns, have partially reflected his passion, I should
turn to Keats' insatiable thirst for beauty in his sonnet, "A Dream,
After reading Dante's Episode of Paolo and Francesca," and his account
of it in a letter to George and Georgiana Keats (February 14, 1819),
and to Carlyle's appreciation of tragedy and love, in "The Hero as a
Poet."

Boker's "Francesca da Rimini" will stand largely because, in structure
and in directness, it is strikingly effective for the stage.

[Footnote A: Duyckinck recalls that, in 1862, R.T. Conrad's
"Devotional Poems" were published, edited by Boker.]

[Footnote B: We find a record of Mrs. John Drew having, as
_Francesca_, supported Davenport when the play was taken to
Philadelphia.]

BROADWAY THEATRE

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LESSEE MR. E.A. MARSHALL
STAGE MANAGER MR. W.R. BLAKE

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SECOND WEEK OF THE
REGULAR SEASON!

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CONTINUATION OF THE ENGAGEMENT OF THE EMINENT

=AMERICAN ACTOR=

MR. E.L. DAVENPORT

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FIRST TIME ON ANY STAGE OF

=THE TRAGEDY=

by G.H. BOKER, Esq., author of "Calaynos," "Betrothal," &c called

=Francesca da Rimini=

Will appear in an entirely
ORIGINAL CHARACTER!!

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This production of a popular and most talented Native Author will be
brought forward with the efficient aid of

ESTABLISHED PERFORMERS!
NEW AND APPROPRIATE SCENERY!!
COSTUMES, PROPERTIES, DECORATIONS!!!
APPOINTMENTS, MUSIC and PAGANTRY!!!!

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WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT 26, 1855
Will be presented the Tragedy, in five acts, by G.H. BOKER, Esq., entitled