Note 60 — XXI. “BY THE WAY.”

William Winter is probably best known in America and England as the accomplished and scholarly critic of the “New York Tribune.” As an authority on the drama he holds in New York a similar position to that which the late John Oxenford held on the “Times.” While there are other professional critics in the Empire city who write admirably, and with the authority of knowledge and experience about the stage, William Winter is the only one among them who has made for himself a prominent name apart from the paper with which he is associated. There is no other critic sufficiently well-known to be entitled to have his name mentioned in news cables or telegrams aside from the journal which engages his pen. Winter has broken through the anonymous character of his journalistic work as successfully as Oxenford and Sala. He is the author of several volumes of lyrics; he is the biographer of the Jeffersons; and since Washington Irving nothing more charming has been written about “the old country” than his “Trip to England.”