Show characters LIKED BY IRVING writer asserts shakespearean parts wore were his favorite ile he himself no doubt thought most of his shakespearean parts and thought loss less ol of ohp he parts tho the world liked best tho the bells and louis XI although I 1 have he heard ard him speak with of the evidences chehad he had had bad of the popularity oatho of tho latter play those were certainly his greatest successes it was in the bells that he made his first great reat mark atler aller seeing him haal in that part charles dickens not long before his death happening to meet toole tho the actor eadd 1 I tell you toole toola that man inan irving Is a genius 11 loula XI perhaps trio trie greatest success was full of ha mannerisms and personal peculiarities but was on that account none the less delightful to those to whom hrs personality was agreeable how 6 characteristic was tho the trick he be hall had in that part of moving his hands behind his back to denote apparently one 99 ot of those peculiarities of manner in to which a man so highly placed as lo go above criticism and out of reach of ridicule Is likely to bo be betrayed ed y S 7 4 adal scribners in magazine L |