Mr. Charles Kean, the tragedian, died on Wednesday night, at
the age of 58. He was not a great actor, except in one part— that of Louis XL, for which he seems to have been born—but he won his way to considerable success and celebrity by dint of patience and courage of a very high order, and early exercised in a noble cause. At the time of his father's (Edmund Kean's) separation from his mother, Charles Kean devoted himself, though quite a boy, to the duty of maintaining her as well as himself ; and with a profound belief in his own capacity as an actor, con- quered his unpopularity, first in the country, and then, after repeated failures and reiterated efforts, in London also. He acted Iago to his father's Othello on the night when Edmund Kean was seized with his last illucss,—and, curiously enough, in the same performance his own future wife, Miss Ellen Tree, took the part of Desdemona. As a manager, Mr. Kean revived the splendid Shakespearian spectacles of Macready, and carried them out to an even higher elaboration. In his private relations he was univer- sally respected, and by many warmly loved.
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