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1884.

Becket. By Alfred Tennyson. Lond.: Macmillan and Co., 1884, green cloth, pp. 213.

Produced at the Lyceum Theatre by Henry Irving, in 1893.

The Falcon and the Cup. London: Macmillan and Co., 1884. Thin volume, green cloth, pp. 146.

"The Falcon"—a short dramatic sketch founded, like the "Golden Supper," on a story in Boccaccio's "Decameron," was produced at the St. James's Theatre, under the management of the Kendals, with Mr. Kendal as Federigo, and Mrs. Kendal (Madge Robertson) as his lady-love. "The Cup"—a classical drama—was produced at the Lyceum, in 1881, with Miss Ellen Terry as Camma. Neither of these plays had been published at the time; and it therefore seems probable that a small edition of both was privately printed, for the use of the actors, and of other persons connected with the production of these pieces. I merely hazard this as a conjecture, but do not possess special information on the subject; still less did I ever see or hear of a copy of either. The lengthy quotations given from "The Cup," however, in some of the
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