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  • Acrostic on Forrest, 845.
  • Actions, the ninth dramatic language, 467.
  • Actor, fame of, not perishable, 338.
  • Actors, generosity of, 526.
    • lives of, 20.
  • Adams, Samuel, 24.
  • Æsthetic gymnastic, 659.
  • Albany, speech of Forrest there in 1864, 559.
  • Alger, William R., 846.
  • Allen, Caridora, 324.
  • Alleyn, Edward, 847.
  • America, characteristic faults of, 49.
    • composite of races in, 47-52.
    • future of drama in, 547.
    • idea and genius and destiny of, 40-44.
    • lessons for, from the East, 48.
  • American Drama, 421.
  • American School of Acting, 17.
  • Americanism, intense, of Forrest, 39, 40.
  • Angelo, Michael, 480.
  • Animal magnetism, 468, 469.
  • Animals, societies for preventing cruelty to, 86.
  • Aristocratic code of manners, 669.
  • Artistic School of Acting, 646, 658-662.
  • Asp, hisses the Cleopatra of Marmontel, 479.
  • Asses, Feast of, in the Church, 685.
  • Astor Place Opera-House Riot, 430-432.
  • Atheists, 576.
  • Athletic development, its glory, 251.
  • Attitudes, the second dramatic language, 464.
  • Auld Lang Syne, 422.
  • Ball, Thomas, sculptor, his Coriolanus statue, 631-633.
  • Bannister, John, Forrest’s admiration of, 30.
    • his retort on the jealous actors, 480.
    • his vast popularity, 585.
  • Barnwell, George, moral power of the play, 703.
  • Baron, the French actor, 643.
  • Barrett, Mrs. George, 533.
  • Barry, Thomas, 527.
  • Bath, Russian, Forrest’s first one, 283.
  • Battle of the Theatre and the Church, 682-695.
  • Beecher, Henry Ward, on theatre, 693.
  • Bertinazzi, the pantomimist, 544.
  • Betty, Master, the Infant Roscius, 595.
  • Biddle, Nicholas, 325.
  • Bird, Robert M., 169.
  • Black, Colonel Samuel, 574.
  • Blake, William R., his Jesse Rural, 545.
  • Bob, Forrest’s mocking-bird, 824.
  • Bogota, Broker of, 350.
  • Bohemians, dramatic critics, 438, 549.
  • Bonaparte, Jerome, Forrest’s interview with, 413.
  • Booth, Edwin, abusive criticism of, 167.
  • attacks on, and enmity to, 173-179.
  • public dinner to, in New York, 181.
  • disliked to impersonate ignoble characters, 259.
  • visits the grave of Talma, 266.
  • public dinner to, in Philadelphia, 325.
  • nominated for Congress, 348.
  • his letter on the giving of benefits by actors, 378.
  • hisses Macready, 410.
  • anecdotes of, at Edinburgh, 412.
  • his limitations as an actor, 472.
  • flings off his wig on the stage, 478.
  • tribute to, by James E. Murdoch, 480.
  • his jealousy of his wife, 488-490.
  • first appearance on the stage after divorce, 502.
  • his tremendous strength, 539.
  • portraits of, at different ages, 586, 587.
  • originality of, 664.
  • thrice thought of leaving the stage, 795.
  • his letter on Lear, 797.
  • his last appearance in New York, 801-810.
  • last appearance on the stage, 811.
  • defects in character of, 816.
  • his love of his mother, 822.
  • estimates of, after his death, 836-840.
  • his lasting memory, 847, 848.
  • Fourth-of-July celebration, oration by Forrest, 339.
    • in London, 413.
  • French notice of Forrest in Parisian journal, 398.
  • Friendship, its rarity, its nature, its meaning, 606-609.
  • Future of the Drama in America, 547.
  • Gallagher, William D., 101, 105, 614.
  • Gambling, its fearful power, 147.
  • Garrick, 455.
    • and Lekain in Paris, 546.
    • his couplet on Nature and Art, 667.
    • tomb of, 189.
  • Garrick Club, banquet to Forrest by, 316.
  • Gaylord, Tom, 841.
  • Gazonac, the gambler and duellist, 122-124.
  • Genealogy, its interest and importance, 32.
  • Genius of the Drama in Shakspeare, 524.
  • Genoa, Forrest boards an American man-of-war at, 277.
  • Georges, Mademoiselle, 264.
  • Gestures, the fourth dramatic language, 465.
  • Gilfert, Charles, the manager, 147, 150, 154, 155.
  • Gospel and Drama have the same end, 682.
  • Government, the ideal of, 51.
  • Graham, Captain, 126, 131.
  • Graham, John, 618.
  • Grant, General, 610.
  • Great men, 169.
  • Millennial state, how to be secured, 682.
  • Mills, John F., his report of Forrest’s talk at Cohasset, 579, 580.
  • Milman, Henry Hart, 321.
  • Mob, the Forrest-Macready, dispersed by military, 433.
  • Mohammed, 697.
  • Money, evils of the intense struggle for, 682.
    • Forrest’s alleged love of, 552, 553.
    • ingratitude of borrowers of, 530.
  • Moralities and Mysteries, 686.
  • Moray, John S., 802.
  • Morrell, T. H., a friend of Forrest, 31.
  • Mossop, 455.
  • Mother, Forrest’s love for his, 423-428, 822.
  • Motions, tend to produce the emotions they express, 568.
  • Movements, automatic, the third dramatic language, 464.
  • Murdoch, James E., his tribute to Forrest, 480.
  • Music, revelation of characters by, 695.
  • Mysteries and Moralities, 686.
  • Napoleon, Louis, 698.
  • Natural School of Acting, 643.
  • Nature and art in acting, 648, 663.
  • Negro, Forrest the earliest impersonator of, on the stage, 108, 109.
  • New Orleans, characteristics of, 113, 114.
  • Newspapers, their good and evil, 432.
  • Nine dramatic languages of man, the, 464.
  • Noises, inarticulate, the sixth dramatic language, 466.
  • Oakes, James, at the bier of Forrest, 833.
    • causes this biography to be written, 14-16.
    • his description of Forrest in Virginius, 650.
    • his first meeting with Forrest, 164.
    • his friendship with Forrest, 624-638.
    • his impression of Mrs. Wheatley, 533.
    • letters of Forrest to, 571, 573, 813, 814.
    • nurses Forrest, 812, 826, 830.
    • sketch of him, 619-624.
  • Oblivion speedily overtakes most men, 34.
  • O’Conor, Charles, his attack on Forrest, 486.
  • Originality has to buffet detraction, 475.
  • Othello, as played by Forrest, 769-781.
  • Padishah, Forrest’s adventure with, 288.
  • Page, William, his portrait of Forrest as Spartacus, 586.
  • Paine, Thomas, letter of, to Washington, 574.
  • Palace of king, secrets of human nature discovered in, 675.
  • Paralysis, Forrest attacked by, 569.
  • Parasites, 595.
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  • Wheatley, Mrs. Sarah, 538.
  • Wheatley, William, 538, 545.
  • Willis, N. P., 498.
  • Wilson, Alexander, the ornithologist, 57, 58.
  • Winter, William, 712, 651, 802.
  • Woffington, Peg, 459.
  • Woodhull, the actor, Forrest plays for his benefit, 149.
  • Words, articulated, the eighth dramatic language, 467.
  • Wright, C. C., the artist, 182.
  • Wright, Silas, and Daniel Webster, 610.
  • Wyman, Col. Powell T., 574, 622.
  • Zoroaster, 564.
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