Show DIOtf BOUCICAULT hoXexv York World Editorially SIlls S-Ills Life and Cliaracter His Piracy Special to THE HERALD Examiner Dispatch NEW YORK Sept 19The World editor ally says of the death of Boucicault Per onally a selflsh and insincere man bestrewed strewed sentiment and pathos through hi Splays plays with a liberal hand He could touch the strings of the human heart with the fingers of a wizard Accused often of the offense of literary piracy it was Mr Bou icaults wont to reply Shakespeare was an adaptor so am I My plays which they say I steal chiefly from the French are uccessiu wnue outer plays derived irom the same source are failures The fields in in which I glean are open t all adaptors The world must admit that I am at least a successful literary pirate Ireland owes him lasting debt of grati tude as well for tho artful way in which he presented story of her wrongs for the genius with which he depicted her jeauty and set before the world her humor and her song HIn lSpIt was estimated that the plays of Mr Boucicault had been given 60000 presentations forwhich the English presenttions forwhch nglsh speak ng public must have paid 25000000 To say this author died poor i to sketch the man Luxurious in his tastes a careless profligate fond of applause indifferent to the claims of those who should have been dear to him he enjoyed life at its best tasted of much bitterness and left to the drama and dramatic art a legacy of won derful value |