Note 28 — X. BOSTON AND SHYLOCK.

As the position which Mr. John Gilbert holds in New York is akin to that which the elder Farren held in London, so the position which Mr. William Warren occupies in Boston is akin to that which Mr. Buckstone (“Bucky,” as his particular friends called him) held in the English metropolis. Mr. Warren’s Dogberry and Paul Pry are among the pleasantest reminiscences of Boston play-goers. It fell to Irving’s lot to meet Mr. Warren frequently, and perhaps no actor ever received greater compliments from two veterans of his craft than Irving received from Gilbert and Warren. While the favorite of New York never missed an Irving performance at the Star Theatre, his famous contemporary of Boston not only attended all the Lyceum performances at Boston, but later, when Irving went to Chicago, Mr. Warren paid his relatives a visit in the western city, and was as constant an attendant at Haverly’s during the Irving engagement as he was at the Boston Theatre.