Mr. Edwin James, formerly of the English Bar, has become
an actor, and at the Winter Garden Theatre, liew York, is said to be now impersonating Friar Lawrence in Romeo and Juliet. He can scateely seem born for his part. Friar Lawrence is dull didactic, and ascetic, and his chief point is the analogy between snen and lierbs. "Two fees," he says, "encamp them still in man as well as herbs, grass and rude will." The Ex-Q.C. will re- cognise the the latter truth, but deprecate the conclusion that "where the wcirser is predominant; full soon the canker death eats up that plant ;" and certainly, unless much changed, he will not be able to recognize any close connection between himself and the world of herbs. Friar Lawrence's slow saws must be sadly humiliating to him, unless he take comfort from the remark that "vice sometime's by action dignified."
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