ith Hackett as Falstaff. Hackett looked
the fat knight well, and his face interpreted many of his remarks
and situations explicitly. He delivered the soliloquy upon honor
with fine effect, and the scenes at Gad's Hill with Bardolph and
his nose, with Mrs. Quickly, and with the Prince when detected in
his exaggeration, were very humorous and well pointed.

When Mr. Hackett took his benefit it was announced that at the
particular request of Colonel David Crockett, of Tennessee, the
comedian would appear on the boards in his favorite character of
"Nimrod Wildfire," in the play called "The Kentuckian; or, a Trip
to New York." This brought out a house full to overflowing. At
seven o'clock the Colonel was escorted by the manager through the
crowd to a front seat reserved for him. As soon as he was recognized
by the audience they made the very house shake with hurrahs for
Colonel Crockett, "Go ahead!" "I wish I may be shot!" "Music!
let us have Crockett's March!" After some time the curtain rose,
and Hackett appeared in hunting costume, bowed to the audience,
and then to Colonel Crockett. The compliment was reciprocated by
the Colonel, to the no small amusement and gratification of the
spectators, and the play then went on.

When Hiram Powers came to Washington, on his way to Italy, he was
rather mortified by the remark of a jealous Italian artist, who
saw in him a rival: "When you have been ten years in Italy, you
may, perhaps, be able to chisel a little;" before, however, a fourth
of that time had elapsed, Powers had finished, from the rough marble
block, the admirable bust of Chief Justice Marshall which now graces
the hall of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Among the visitors to Washington early in 1834 was Charles Sumner,
then a tall, slim, ungainly young man, twenty-three years of age,
who was a student at law in Boston, but not admitted to practice.
He was introduced by his friend, Mr. Justice Story, to Chief Justice
Marshall and Justices Thompson, Duval, and McLean, and was invited
to dine with them. It is not known whether Justice Story told him
--as he told Edmund Quincy--that the Court was so aesthetic that
they denied themselves wine, except in wet weather. "But," added
the commentator on the Constitution, "what I say about wine, sir,
gives you our rule, but it does sometimes happen that the Chief
Justice will say to me, when the cloth is removed, 'Brother Story,
step to the window and see