_Author._ _Play._ W. G. Wills Rienzi „ Mephisto „ King Arthur „ Don Quixote Frank Marshall Robert Emmett Richard Voss Schuldig J. I. C. Clarke George Washington „ Don Quixote Fergus Hume The Vestal Penrhyn Stanlaws The End of the Hunting H. T. Johnson The Jester King Egerton Castle and Walter Pollock Saviolo O. Booth and J. Dixon Jekyll and Hyde (from Stevenson) J. M. Barrie The Professor’s Love Story F. C. Burnand The Isle of St. Tropez „ The Count H. Guy Carleton The Balance of Comfort Ludwig Fulda The Bloody Marriage[5] Footnote 5: This was dramatised for Irving by W. L. Courtney, but the opportunity for its production had not come at the time of his last illness. For obvious reasons I do not give what any of these authors received for play or option or advance fees; but the total was over nine thousand pounds. Regarding one of the plays, Irving’s exact reason for not playing it was that he felt it would not suit him—or rather that he would not suit it. He liked the play extremely, and when after studying the _scenario_ very carefully he had to come to the conclusion that it was not in his own special range of work, he obtained permission from the author to submit it to two of his friends in turn, John L. Toole and John Hare. Both these players were delighted with the work, but neither had it in his vogue. Finally another actor saw his way to it, and made with it both a hit and fortune. The play was Barrie’s _The Professor’s Love Story_; the actor who played it E. S. Willard. This is a good instance of delayed fortune. For my own part, knowing the peculiar excellences and strength of the three players who refused it, I cannot but think that they were all right. The play is an excellent one, but wants to be exactly fitted. Irving was naturally too strong for it; Toole was a low comedian, and it is not in the vein of low comedy; Hare’s incisive finesse would have militated against that unconsciousness of effect which is the “note” of the Professor. III In addition to the above plays on which he adventured wholly or in part Irving made efforts regarding plays by other authors, amongst whom were Mrs. Steel, K. and Hesketh Pritchard, Marion Crawford, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Arthur Jones, W. L. Courtney, Miss Mary Wilkins, Robert Barr. These included the possible dramatisation of several novels.