But to return. The versatility of Lester, so conspicuous throughout his career, was early made apparent. We remember him as _Steerforth_, as _Sir Andrew Aguecheek_, and _Captain Murphy Maguire_; and though in the last he acted under the shadow of Brougham's rich impersonation, still he was a delightful _Captain_. We saw him as the young lover, in "Paul Pry"; as _Frederick_, in "The Poor Gentleman," and many more; besides those parts, such as _Young Marlow_, _Charles Surface_, and _Captain Absolute_, which need no reference, since they remain ripe and finished conceptions in his present repertory. But of all his delineations of the past, that which we linger on with the greatest pleasure, and which affected us most, was his _Harry Dornton_, in "The Road to Ruin." From the moment he appears beneath his father's window, importunate for admittance, he awakens an interest and sympathy that follow him to the end. The part abounds in touches of Lesterian hue and flavor: the scene just mentioned; that wherein _Milford_ makes careless and heartless allusion to _Old Dornton_, and is met by _Harry's_ eloquent and electric rebuke; the scene with the _Widow Warren_, and with _Sophia_;--all are charming; and we feel it to be no small tribute to hold in memory Lester's _Harry_ side by side with the _Old Dornton_ of Blake. We have spoken of T. B. Johnston, and referred to famous parts of his, particularly to the conception and execution of certain characters in Dickens which undeniably he made his own; but we remember this actor in other and sundry enjoyable delineations, of which brief mention may be made. The odd aspect of Johnston, joined to his whimsical method, so in keeping, as before remarked, with the creations of Boz, peculiarly fitted him for the apt portrayal of those idiosyncrasies of nature and temperament shadowed forth by characters in many of the old farces, in which he often appeared, those pieces being quite the fashion in the days of which we are writing. We may instance _Panels_, in "A School for Tigers," as one of these; his part in "A Blighted Being" (the name quite forgotten), was another; _Humphrey Dobbins_, in "The Poor Gentleman" (that not a farce, however), was a capital portraiture, and an amusing foil to Burton's _Sir Robert Bramble_; his _Miss Swithers_, in "A Thousand Milliners," where he almost divided the honors with Burton as _Madam Vandepants_;--these are a few of the many that come floating back on the tide of recollection.