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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1891 edition. Excerpt: ...a native of Inverness, the last vowel was guttural. One day, dining with Douglas Jerrold who insisted on addressing him as Mr. Reek or Reech, No, said the other; my name is neither Reek nor Reech, but Reach. Very well, said Jen-old, Mr. 'Reach will you have a pcac/i? triumphs are his popular recitations of Lis poems. Standing bravely up before an expectant assembly of perhaps a couple of thousand persons--the hot-blooded and quick-brained children of the South--the modern Troubadour plunges over head and ears into his lays, evoking both himself and his applauding audiences into fits of enthusiasm and excitement, which, whatever may be the excellence of the poetry, an Englishman finds it difficult to conceive or account for. The raptures of the New Yorkers and Bostonians with Jenny Lind are weak and cold compared with the ovations which Jasmin has received. At a recitation given shortly before my visit to Auch, the ladies present actually tore the flowers and feathers out of their bonnets, wove them into extempore garlands, and flung them in showers upon the panting minstrel; while the editors of the local papers next morning assured him, in floods of flattering epigrams, that humble as he was now, future ages would acknowledge the 'divinity ' of a Jasmin! There is a feature, however, about these recitations which is still more extraordinary than the uncontrollable fits of popular enthusiasm which-they produce. His last entertainment before I saw him was given in one of the Pyrenean cities, and produced 2000 francs. Every sou of this went to the public charities; Jasmin will not accept a stiver of money so earned. With a species of perhaps overstrained, but certainly exalted, chivalric feeling, he declines to appear before an audience to...

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