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Show Edwin Adams. This distincuished I aUtr arrived at i hs Townend Hous 'in this city yesterday morning, havine jjuat completed a highly t;uoce--ful four-weeks four-weeks engagement in San Francisco. It will be a matter of congrata'aiion with our realer, to know that at last American tragedian of equal emi-n-iciwith Bjoih is to appear at the Sjlt Like I heatre. In fact we incline to the opinion that Mr. Adams has, tor the pa-t two years, taken a position in arti-t:c circle, eat and west, somewhat some-what in ad vane j of his contemporary, i' lie re is a certain fre-hutM anu ' - rength observable in the impersona ionaol'Mr. Adama which we seek in vain in that tendency to mannerism fhich characterizes Booth. Bojtfi's tar has been in the a-cendant; it ha--L-ibly paled of late before the absolute efinctm nt and ihorouhly-t-ustainid power of Adams. Of exactly the same tge, nature has endowed both richly; md both have alike merited the fame md the substantial success with wb ch fjrtune has repaid them. In their rare talents, in their ctrong intellectually, intellectual-ly, and in their high moral character,! -:hey are marvellously alike; in their1 measure of fame they differ ooy as all nen difivr according to the partial ver-lictof ver-lictof friendship. No uctor's career has been more honorable than that ot Mr. Adams, and none more successful, j r he very soul of gentlemanly purity and honor, he has sought to elevate :he manners and the mo rah of the stage by rigidly shuuniLg all that can corrupt in stage-life. Brilliant as has lecn the past of this great actor, who nas scarcely yet reached the prime of tctive life, we anticipate for him a still more brilliant future. j It is rare that our people have the opportunity of meeting the lead ng :alent of the land. L?t them enjoy! this opportunity, during the present eek, so far as the capacity of the iheatre will permit. |