and the dark spots having caverns where the inhabitants reside. There was another objection: all the human interest would have been destroyed, which I have even endeavoured to give my angels."] WERNER; OR, THE INHERITANCE: A TRAGEDY. [_Werner_ was produced, for the first time, at the Park Theatre, New York, in 1826. Mr. Barry played "Werner." _Werner_ was brought out at Drury Lane Theatre, and played, for the first time, December 15, 1830. Macready appeared as "Werner," J. W. Wallack as "Ulric," Mrs. Faucit as "Josephine," and Miss Mordaunt as "Ida." According to the _Times_, December 16, 1830, "Mr. Macready appeared to very great advantage. We have never seen him exert himself more--we have never known him to exert himself with more powerful effect. Three of his scenes were masterpieces." Genest says that _Werner_ was acted seventeen times in 1830-31. There was a revival in 1833. Macready says (_Diary_, March 20) that he acted "'Werner' with unusual force, truth, and collectedness ... finished off each burst of passion, and, in consequence, entered on the following emotion with clearness and earnestness" (Macready's _Reminiscences_, 1875, i 36.6). _Werner_ was played in 1834, 5, 6, 7, 9; in 1841; in 1843-4 (New York, Boston, Baltimore, New Orleans, Cincinnati, Montreal); in 1845 (Paris, London, Glasgow, Belfast, Dublin); in 1846, 1847; in America in 1848; in the provinces in 1849; in 1850; and, for the last time, at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, January 14, 1851. At the farewell performance Macready appeared as "Werner," Mr. Davenport as "Ulric," Mrs. Warner as "Josephine," Mrs. Ryder as "Ida." In the same year (1851) a portrait of Macready as "Werner," by Daniel Maclise, R.A., was on view at the Exhibition at the Royal Academy. The motto was taken from _Werner_, act i. sc. 1, lines 114, _sq._ (See, for a detailed criticism of Macready's "Werner," _Our Recent Actors_, by Westland Marston, 1881, i. 89-98; and for the famous "Macready _burst_," in act ii. sc. 2, and act v. sc. 1, _vide ibid._, i. 97.) _Werner_ was brought out at Sadler's Wells Theatre, November 21, 1860, and repeated November 22, 23, 24, 28, 29; December, 3, 4, 11, 13, 14, 1860. Phelps appeared as "Werner," Mr. Edmund Phelps as "Ulric," Miss Atkinson as "Josephine." "Perhaps the old actor never performed the part so finely as he did on that night. The identity between the real and ideal relations of the characters was as vivid to him as to the audience, and gave a deeper intensity, on both sides, to the scenes between father and son." (See _The London Stage_, by H. Barton Baker, 1889, ii. 217.)