[88] That is, the next season; the "Roman Father" was produced 24th February 1750. [89] It was Lewis's father who quited business for the stage. [90] His success over Mossop was only in one part, a comedy character utterly unfitted for the latter. [91] Some valuable remarks on this subject will be found in the article "Lewis Hallam, the Second," by Edward Eggleston in Brander Matthews' and Laurence Hutton's "Actors and Actresses of Great Britain and the United States": New York, 1886. [92] Tate Wilkinson says she played Calista, and sang a song after the tragedy. [93] It is generally held that Wilkinson himself gave her the name of Jordan. [94] Should be 1794-95. [95] I do not know any reason for saying that he was in want. [96] Should be 1796. The date was 25th June. [97] 1824, 31st May. [98] Mrs. Lefanu's "Prejudice" may be added. [99] That is, no new piece of any importance. [100] There were at Covent Garden also Young, and Mrs. Jordan. [Illustration: COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.] CHAPTER XIV. NEW IDEAS; NEW THEATRES; NEW AUTHORS; AND THE NEW ACTORS. Early in the present century, Mr. Twiss published his _Verbal Index to Shakspeare_; and this led to an attack upon the poet and the stage, as fierce, if not so formidable, as the onslaught of Prynne and the invective of Collier. The assailant, in the present case, was an anonymous writer, in the _Eclectic Review_, for January 1807. As an illustration of the feeling of dissenters towards the bard and players generally, this attack deserves a word of notice. The writer, after denouncing Mr. Twiss as a man who had no sense of the value of time, in its reference to his eternal state; sneering at him as one who would have been more innocently employed in arranging masses of pebbles on the sea shore; and bewailing "the blind devotion which fashion requires to be paid at the shrine of Shakspeare," professes to recognise "the inimitable excellences of the productions of Shakspeare's genius;" and then proceeds to illustrate the sense of the recognition, and to pour out the vials of his wrath, after this fashion:--