The other books of Booth's series are
Hamlet^ Macbeth^ Othello^ King Lear^
Bichard the Second^ Henry the Eighth y
Much Ado About Nothing ^ The Merchant
of Venice, Katherine and Petruchio, Biche-
lieuy The FooVs Bevenge, Brutus^ Buy
Bias, and Don Ccesar de Bazan. The in-
tention was that each play-book should
contain all the aids that are essential for
the production of the play. Twenty years
earlier Booth had begun the arrangement
of the text of some of the stock plays, and
in the Winter Garden time he had printed
several of them, under the supervision of



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1 68 LIFE AND ART OP EDWIN BOOTH.
Henry L. Hinton, a young actor in his
company : those books he discarded.
As a manager Booth, incidentally, pro-
duced Arthur Matthison's play on Tenny-
son's poem of Enoch Arden, and likewise
a tragic piece entitled Jonquil^ or Only a
Hearty by William Young. The latter piece
was brought out at Booth's theatre, April
15, 1871. It is in four acts, and the scene
is Paris. The hero is a poor artist; the
heroine a dancing girl. These two marry,
and the wife repudiates the husband and
breaks his heart. The situations are effec-
tive. The piece resembles Belphegor and
the Marble Heart — showing the evil that
may be wrought by a fickle or a cruel
woman. Lawrence Barrett played Jonquil.
Neither of those plays has survived. Booth
also reproduced in America the drama of
Time and Tide^ by Palgrave Simpson.
