THE TRAGEDIAN

AN ESSAY ON

THE HISTRIONIC GENIUS

OF

JUNIUS BRUTUS BOOTH.

BY

THOMAS R. GOULD.

NEW YORK:

PUBLISHED BY HURD AND HOUGHTON.

Cambridge: Riverside Press.

1868.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

THOMAS R. GOULD,

in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the District of Massa

chusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY

H. 0. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY.

To

EDWIN BOOTH,

WHOSE RARE GOOD GIFTS HAVE ALREADY WON FOR HIM THE UNDIVIDED ADMIRATION AND RESPECT OF