The strongest cast of _Hamlet_, in all its parts, ever presented in America, was that at the famous Wallack Testimonial in New York, on the 21st of May, 1888, when Lawrence Barrett played the Ghost; Frank Mayo the King; John Gilbert Polonius; Eben Plympton Laertes; John A. Lane Horatio; Joseph Wheelock the First Actor; Milnes Levick the Second Actor; Henry Edwards the Priest; Joseph Jefferson and William J. Florence the Grave-diggers; Miss Kellogg Gertrude; Miss Coghlan the Player Queen; and Madame Modjeska Ophelia to the Hamlet of Edwin Booth. The first record of any performance of _Hamlet_ in New York, as has been shown, was at the theatre in Chappel Street, November 26, 1761. On the 26th of November, 1861, Mr. Booth played the same part at the Winter Garden, on Broadway. The coincidence was not noticed at the time, and no doubt was purely accidental. It was a very pleasant coincidence, nevertheless, and it is certainly a happy fact that Edwin Booth should have been selected by chance to celebrate upon the New York stage the centenary of _Hamlet_ in New York. CURTAIN. THE CAST OF CHARACTERS. _THE CAST OF CHARACTERS._ Abbott, William, 282, 314. Adams, Edwin, 200. Adams, Mrs. Edwin, 124. Adams, J. J., 270. Addams, Augustus A., 314. Aldrich, Louis, 245. Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 217. Aldridge, Ira, 94. Alger, Wm. R., 103. Allen, Andrew J., 101-3, 122. Alsop, Mrs., 321. Anderson, David C., 301. Anderson, J. R., 314. Anderson, Mary, 5. Andre, John, 19-20. Andrews, George H., 69, 301. Anne, Queen, 158. Arbuthnot, John, 150. Aristophanes, 149-51, 164. Arnold, Benedict, 19. Arnold, George, 148. Arnold, George J., 314. Arnold, John H. V., xii. Backus, Charles, 138. Baker, Mrs. (Alexina Fisher), 238, 301. Baker, Thomas, 48. Bancker, Mr., 96. Bandmann, Daniel, 305-6, 313. Bangs, John Kendrick, 195. Bannister, John, 90-3. Barker, Jas. N., 10. Barnay, Ludwig, 313. Barnes, John, 119. Barnes, Mrs. John, 10, 322. Barnum, P. T., 111, 242. Barrett, Lawrence, 5, 104, 107, 170, 204, 298, 301, 302-5, 322, 329. Barrett, Mrs. Giles L., 100. Barron, Charles, 301. Barrow, Mrs. (Julia Bennett), 286, 297. Barry, Thomas, 14, 59, 282. Barry, Mrs. Thomas (First), 282. Barry, Mrs. Thomas (Clara S. Biddles), 59. Bartley, Mrs. George, 322. Barton, Mr., 314. Bartow, Mr., 314. Bateman, Ellen, 80, 230, 238-43. Bateman, Kate, 5, 80, 230, 238-43. Bateman, Mrs. H. L., 76, 79, 80. Battersby, Mrs. (Mrs. Stickney), 322. Beckett, Harry, 177. Behn, Aphra, 90. Belgarde, Adele, 325. Benedict, Lew, 139. Bennett, Julia (Mrs. Barrow), 286, 297. Berkley, Fanny, 245. Bernard, Bayle, 25. Bernard, John, 262, 265. Bernard, Wm. H., 138. Betty, W. H. W. ("Master" Betty), 222-6, 234. Bickerstaffe, Isaac, 93. Birch, William, 132-5, 138. Blake, Wm. R., 60, 244. Blakeley, Thos. H., 123-4.