Loyalties Author:John Galsworthy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. MEMORIALS. SARGENT'S PORTRAIT OF EDWIN BOOTH AT "THE PLAYERS." That face which no man ever saw And from his memory banished quite, With eyes in wh... more »ich are Hamlet's awe And Cardinal Richelieu's subtle light, Looks from this frame. A master's hand Has set the master-player here, In the fair temple that he planned Not for himself. To us most dear This image of him ! " It was thus He looked ; such pallor touched his cheek; With that same grace he greeted us — Nay 'tis the man, could it but speak !" Sad words that shall be said some day — Far fall the day ! O cruel Time, Whose breath sweeps mortal things away, Spare long this image of his prime, That others standing in the place, Where, save as ghosts, we come no more, May know what sweet majestic face The gentle Prince of Players wore ! Thomas Bailey Aldrich. 265 THE BOOTH FAMILY. Richard Booth M1ss Game i. Junius Brutus Booth 2. Algernon Sidney Booth 3. Jane Booth Richard Booth was the son of Elizabeth Wilkes, cousin to John Wilkes, "the agitator" (1727-1797). Richard Booth, an ardent republican, followed his son Junius to America, in 1822, and died on December 29, 1839, aged 76. On the stone that marks his grave, in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, the following words are cut, beneath a cross : " Ex vita, ita descedo, tamquam ex hospito, in fervam Reguum in ely- tissimi Ducis illix ire ad Astra." Richard Booth's wife, whose maiden name was Game, died, in England, at the birth of her daughter, Jane. Of Algernon Sidney Booth I have no record. Junius Brutus Booth January 18,1821. Mary Ann Holmes I Junius Brutus Booth, Jr., Rosalie Ann Booth, Henry Byron Booth, Mary Ann Booth, Frederick Booth, Elizabeth Booth, Edwin Thomas Booth, Asia Sidney Booth (Mrs. J. S. Clarke), John Wilk...« less