14. THEATRE ROYAL, DUBLIN 240 15. RICH AS HARLEQUIN--1753 253 16. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY LANE 268 17. DAVID GARRICK--From a miniature by Louisa Lane 277 18. GARRICK'S HOUSE, HAMPTON 290 19. GARRICK BETWEEN TRAGEDY AND COMEDY 304 20. MR. AND MRS. BARRY IN "TAMERLANE" 336 21. KITTY CLIVE'S HOUSE, TWICKENHAM 354 22. MR. FOOTE AS MRS. COLE IN "THE MINOR" 371 LIST OF TAILPIECES ON WOOD. VOLUME II. PAGE 1. MRS. CLIVE AS MRS. HEIDELBERG 20 2. MR. CLARKE AS ANTONIO 48 3. MRS. YATES AS LADY MACBETH 126 4. MR. MACKLIN AS SHYLOCK 159 5. MR. KING AS LORD OGLEBY 180 6. MR. POWELL AS LOVEWELL 212 7. MR. POWELL AS CYRUS 252 8. MR. GARRICK AS MACBETH 289 9. MR. GARRICK AS SIR JOHN BRUTE 335 10. MR. SHUTER AS JUSTICE WOODCOCK 370 11. MRS. YATES AS MANDANE 406 [Illustration: MRS. OLDFIELD.] CHAPTER I. MRS. OLDFIELD. Artists who have been wont to look into the _Vicar of Wakefield_, _Gil Blas_, and last century comedies, for picturesque subjects, would find account in referring to the lives of our actresses. Here is not a bad picture of its class. The time is at the close of the seventeenth century; the scene is at the Mitre Tavern in St. James's Market, kept by one Mrs. Voss. It is a quiet summer evening, and after the fatigues of the day are over, and before the later business of the night has commenced, that buxom lady is reclining in an easy chair, listening to a fair and bright young creature, her sister,[1] who is reading aloud, and is enjoying what she reads. Her eyes, like Kathleen's in the song, are beaming with light, her face glowing with intelligence and feeling. Even an elderly lady, their mother, turns away from the picture of her husband, who had ridden in the Guards, and held a commission under James II.--she turns from this, and memories of old days, to gaze with tender admiration on her brilliant young daughter; who, be it said, at this present reading, is only an apprentice to a seamstress in King Street, Westminster.