tiful. "It is so very beautiful, that you must be flattering me.' She then sat down on the staircase to contemplate the sculpture, frequently exclaiming, "It is so very beautiful, that you must be flattering me." She departed, however, evidently well pleased to believe in the likeness but it would require one to be as handsome as herself to have a right to blame her self-complacency. On the 5th of June she acted Isabella for the twenty-fourth time; and, having performed, in all, about eighty nights, and on six of them for the benefit of others, she closed a season of as brilliant success as her own wishes could have shaped, even if they had been castlebuilding. Her fellow-performers complained that, after her tragic parts, the best comic acting of after-pieces could not raise the spirits of the audience; and this continued to be the case, till the enchantress, Mrs. Jordan, appeared on the same boards. It has been said of Mrs. Siddons, by the last historian of the stage,* that, even in this first season, she made all other actresses be forgotten. Perhaps it would be more correct to say, though it ought to be said with a due sympathy for the previous idols of the public, that she left to her still nominal rivals, Mrs. Yates and Mrs. Crawford, a remnant of reputation more painful than utter oblivion. *Mr. Genest. CONTENTS. Her Second Season at Drury Lane-Plays Isabella, in |