13 OCTOBER 1888, page 22

Edmund Kean.*

THE actor is bat an ephemeral artist ; he becomes legendary so soon as he is seen and heard no more ; he creates nothing, he enriches no Art treasury; he is an imitator, an......

Current Literature.

That enterprising monthly, the North American Review, threatens to become a receptacle for letters, instead of being a collection of articles,—certainly several of the papers in......