It was indeed a happy notion of yours, Sir, to send me across the Atlantic after Mr. Irving. I arrived just in time, I believe, to save our eminent tragedian from utter collapse. He was being “interviewed” quickly and surely to death! There was not a moment to be lost, and finding how matters were going, I went to Mr. Irving before I had been in New York forty-eight hours, and I said to him frankly and cordially, in my fine fearless old fashion,