Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Garrick and His Circle
My grateful thanks are due to the many friends and counsellors who have forwarded the writing Of this book, especially to Mrs. Frank Gielgud for her invaluable help and criticisms in connection with the art and methods Of actors.
My thoughts have, during the past year, been so continuously occupied with Garrick that I have some times almost wondered that the Shade Of the kindly actor, wearing - astrally - his blue coat Of private life, with the gilt buttons, and that odious scratch' Wig his friends all deprecated, has never appeared at my writing table to acquaint me with the vraie ve'rite'.
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