He launched the mysterious power of his voice, like the
sudden rising of a mighty wind from some unknown
source, over those * multitudinous seas,' and they swelled
and congregated dim and vast before the eye of the
mind. Then came the amazing word * incarnadine,' each
$yllable ringing like the stroke of a sword. The whole
passage was of unparalleled grandeur ; and in tone, look,
action, conveyed the impression of an infinite and un-
availing remorse."

The success of Booth's Lear, as Mr. Gould is enabled
to show, dated so far back as his first assumption of the
part at Drury Lane in 1820. " We have seen Mr. Booth's
Lear, with great pleasure," writes Hazlitt, whom Mr.
