The Mad Booths of Maryland

THTS is a long story of America’s most eminent theatrical family. It is well told and very readable. It gains by including a good deal of collateral information about various aspects and incidents of American stage history since 1821, when the first Junius Brutus Booth came to America from England. The family seems to have suffered from a streak of unbalance, it not actual insanity, which made its course sometimes tempestuous and always painful. Hence its history does not make enlivening reading, but because so many of its members were highly gifted, and because, being theatrical people, their gifts brought them before a large public, an account of their ups and downs is bound to be interesting; and an