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248 occasion if it always produced such happy results. There is one feature of her own design in the room that is particularly attractive, and this is a white wood arrangement for holding photographs. It extends nearly all round, and here, side by side, are portraits of many friends in and outside the profession.

The two chief characteristics of the charming player are her ardent desire to please and her extreme modesty regarding her own performances. Never resenting criticism, when she observes in Press notices any suggestions which strike her as being desirable to adopt, she will frankly think them well out and act accordingly. Hence her clever impersonation of Lady Susan--artistic and striking as it was at first-gained considerable power and charm. But I am a wretched “first-nighter," says Mary Moore, shaking her head ruefully,' and I owe any success that I may have made to Mr. Wyndham's careful and excellent system of coaching.'

It speaks volumes for Mr. Clifford Harrison's powers of entertaining that, on a succession of Saturday afternoons in midsummer, with the rival attractions of Sarasate at St. James's Hall, sundry matinées at theatres, polo at Hurlingham, not to speak of river parties and other country amusements, he can, single-handed, keep a crowded audience enthralled and spell-bound for two hours. Now he brings his hearers to the verge of tears by his exquisite and tender pathos; anon peals of subdued laughter ripple through Steinway Hall as, with an incomparable sense of humour and with the utmost delicacy and refinement, he indicates the comic side of a situation.

Mr. Clifford Harrison's home is situated at the corner of a great square, just where the garden terminates in a